1877
Elliott’s retrospective account of the 1849 burial, presented during the 1875 monument dedication and printed in 1877. Reports attendance, reinterment and damage to a proposed grave marker. The text’s January20 birth date and October9 burial date are retained as source statements, not endorsed. The train incident is a later reported account, not a contemporaneous accident report.
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Elliott’s retrospective account of the 1849 burial, presented during the 1875 monument dedication and printed in 1877. Reports attendance, reinterment and damage to a proposed grave marker. The text’s January20 birth date and October9 burial date are retained as source statements, not endorsed. The train incident is a later reported account, not a contemporaneous accident report.
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View reference catalogue / source ↗Selected passage, printed pp.44–45 (PDF leaves62–63), from “Ladies and Gentlemen” through “unfit to be used as intended.” Not the full address or book; complete received 124-leaf scan available. AI-assisted scan comparison, no independent human proofread. Image PDF retains surrounding page content; Text PDF covers only the identified article or passage.
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Download ↓Unmodified received PDF. Reading edition scope: Selected passage, printed pp.44–45 (PDF leaves62–63), from “Ladies and Gentlemen” through “unfit to be used as intended.” Not the full address or book; complete received 124-leaf scan available.
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Download ↓Selected passage, printed pp.44–45 (PDF leaves62–63), from “Ladies and Gentlemen” through “unfit to be used as intended.” Not the full address or book; complete received 124-leaf scan available. AI-assisted scan comparison, no independent human proofread. Image PDF retains surrounding page content; Text PDF covers only the identified article or passage.
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Download ↓Later accounts of Poe’s burial and commemoration, printed in1877 and1885 respectively. Read their scope, chronology and retrospective limitations separately; proximity in this archive is not independent corroboration.
Compare two retrospective descriptions of the 1849 funeral. Snodgrass recalls three or four followers excluding undertaker and drivers; Elliott reports eight or nine and identifies possible participants. Counting scope and elapsed time differ; neither should be treated as an uncontested attendance list.
Rice, Sara Sigourney, ed. Edgar Allan Poe: A Memorial Volume. Baltimore, 1877. Selected passage from William Elliott, Jr.’s address, pp.44–45.
Public-domain historical publication first published in the United States before 1931. Received Internet Archive scan preserved unchanged. Modern supplied editorial guide is not part of this public edition.
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