Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions — John H. Ingram, 1880, volume II
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Historical biography by John H. Ingram, published by John Hogg in London in 1880. This volume preserves chapters XV–XXI, appendices A–G and the index. The two original volumes are separate local records. The historical illustrations are supplied as local JPEG downloads at the source repository’s resolution. This is a later electronic transcription of the historical book, not a complete photographic facsimile. Ingram’s biographical claims, quoted correspondence and assessments are historical testimony, including disputed claims, rather than modern verified findings. Modern website navigation, commentary, correction glosses and the later 1886-only index entry are excluded. Typography and page layout are simplified. The text has not been independently proofread word by word. This record does not claim to preserve Ingram’s separate 1874 memoir.
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Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions
Date
1880
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John Henry Ingram (historical biography)
Publisher
John Hogg
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London
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
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Historical biography by John H. Ingram, published by John Hogg in London in 1880. This volume preserves chapters XV–XXI, appendices A–G and the index. The two original volumes are separate local records. The historical illustrations are supplied as local JPEG downloads at the source repository’s resolution. This is a later electronic transcription of the historical book, not a complete photographic facsimile. Ingram’s biographical claims, quoted correspondence and assessments are historical testimony, including disputed claims, rather than modern verified findings. Modern website navigation, commentary, correction glosses and the later 1886-only index entry are excluded. Typography and page layout are simplified. The text has not been independently proofread word by word. This record does not claim to preserve Ingram’s separate 1874 memoir.
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Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions — John H. Ingram, 1880, volume II
Historical biography by John H. Ingram, published by John Hogg in London in 1880. This volume preserves chapters XV–XXI, appendices A–G and the index. The two original volumes are separate local records. The historical illustrations are supplied as local JPEG downloads at the source repository’s resolution. This is a later electronic transcription of the historical book, not a complete photographic facsimile. Ingram’s biographical claims, quoted correspondence and assessments are historical testimony, including disputed claims, rather than modern verified findings. Modern website navigation, commentary, correction glosses and the later 1886-only index entry are excluded. Typography and page layout are simplified. The text has not been independently proofread word by word. This record does not claim to preserve Ingram’s separate 1874 memoir.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE
His Life, Letters, and Opinions
BY
JOHN H. INGRAM.
“Unhappy Master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his Songs one burden bore —
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of ‘Never, — nevermore.’ ”
With Portraits of Poe and His Mother.
VOL. II.
LONDON: JOHN HOGG, PATERNOSTER ROW
1880. ———— [All rights reserved.]
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
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PAGE
PORTRAIT OF POE’S MOTHER · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
Frontispiece
CHAP.
XV.
THE “BROADWAY JOURNAL” · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
1
XVI.
THE LITERATI OF NEW YORK · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
61
XVII.
MARIE LOUISE SHEW · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
98
XVIII.
EUREKA! · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
129
XIX.
HELEN WHITMAN · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
160
XX.
“ANNIE” · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
187
XXI.
LAST DAYS · · · · · · · · · · · ·
222
FACSIMILE OF LETTER FROM POE · · · · · · · · · · · ·
107
APPENDIX A.
POE’S ANCESTRY · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
245
″ B.
WILLIAM HENTRY LEONARD POE · · · · · · · · · · · ·
253
″ C.
ROSALIE M. POE · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
256
″ D.
LADY FRIENDSHIPS · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
259
″ E.
THE POE MEMORIAL · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
263
″ F.
BIOGRAPHIES OF POE · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
289
″ G.
BIBLIOGRAPHY · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
297
INDEX · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
305
John H. Ingram, “Chapter 15,” Edgar Allan Poe: Life, Letters, and Opinions (1880), pp. 1-60
EDGAR ALLAN POE.
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CHAPTER XV.
THE “BROADWAY J0URNAL.”.
ON the 8th of March 1845, Edgar Poe became joint-editor, with two New York journalists, of the Broadway Journal, a publication of no particular influence or circulation. One of his coadjutors devoted himself to the musical and dramatic section of the paper, and the other shred the literary department with their new associate. The views of Poe and his literary companion being diametrically opposite, it was arranged that each should be free to enunciate his own opinions independently of the other — an arrangement that produced a somewhat novel, not to say unseemly, appearance, during the
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John Hogg. “Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions — John H. Ingram, 1880, volume II.” 1880. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-2a9dd1dd53c440f9824f74161a66ba92. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-2a9dd1dd53c440f9824f74161a66ba92. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: John H. Ingram. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions. Volume II. London: John Hogg, 1880.
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