Letter from R. H. Horne, London, to Edmund C. Stedman,1880 May 1 : autograph manuscript signed.

About Edgar Allan Poe and himself; saying "As you refer to the memorial volume, containing letters and brief critiques on that admirable and unique writer, I think you must have observed that my paper was placed first in the list of critiques (not Letters) and I hope you were pleased with it. If any poet had the highest reasons for gratitude towards a critic, especially a contemporary, I have. Poe was of the earliest, and certainly the most eulogistic critics and commentators on "Orion"; and because I have always felt the full gratitude I ought to do, I regret my name does not appear in your list of those who have written about him. Perhaps you did not like what I said about the 'artificiality' of Poe's most popular poems; nevertheless I hope I did justice to his prose tales as most original and wonderful [illegible];" adding, in a postscript, "Possibly you read in the English papers that L'd Beaconsfield, in 'his last moments', gave me an additional 50 per an. to my Pension."