Letters (10) from Thomas Ollive Mabbott, New York, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1933-1965 : autograph manuscripts signed.

Offering several anecdotes about Mark Twain, who lived two doors down from Mabbott on Fifth Avenue; agreeing to read his manuscript on Edgar Allan Poe and to comment on the facts only; saying that he considers the "coop story" of Poe's last days "a pure canard," that he believes Poe was not a habitual drug user, and that a raven is "supposed to embody the soul of about the most romantic king there ever was"; discussing Mary Rogers; and sending comments on Wagenknecht's Longfellow : a full-length portrait (1955).