BIB_ID
287641
Accession number
MA 644.1-29
Display Date
1827-1849.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909-1912.
Description
29 items, unbound : ill. (ports.) ; size varies
Notes
High reserve.
Provenance
Items in the collection were purchased by Pierpont Morgan between 1909 and 1912; see individual records for more detailed provenance information.
Summary
Collection consists of two autograph manuscript poems (Dreams and The Lake, MA 644.1), an 1849 promissory note signed by Poe (MA 644.2), five autograph letters signed to various recipients (MA 644.3-7), and a slip of paper with his signature (MA 644.17). Collection also contains one autograph letter signed from John Reuben Thompson to E. H. N. Patterson concerning the last six months of Poe's life (MA 644.8), and eight autograph letters signed from Thomas Wills White, the editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, to Lucian Minor; these letters date to 1835, just after Poe began working there. With 12 engravings.
Housed in
Red cloth drop-spine box (35.3 cm)
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