Letter from Thomas Ollive Mabbott, New York, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, between 1963 September 16 and 1965 October 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying he just read the galleys [of Wagenknecht's book on Poe] very carefully and did no research, except on Wheler in the Chivers book, which was very good for him and encouraged him to read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; saying Miss Tetlow was friendly to him, so he cannot indicate that he thought Harrington was right; saying Harrington found a home broken up by Poe, namely the Osgood household; disagreeing with Harrington's claim; saying Frances Sargent Osgood's husband had already left New England after a scandal about some girl in the Emerson circle, before Frances met Poe in 1845; saying Mrs. Clemm disapproved but Sam Osgood and Virginia Clemm did not; saying Osgood talked of suing Mrs. Ellet for libel; saying Osgood found Fanny "in feeble health" upon his return from California, and they got back together; criticizing Harrington; mentioning trouble with his own Poe book and the director of the Harvard Press; in a postscript, saying Mrs. Ellet was the troublemaker in the Poe circle, and comparing this incident to an experience of his at Hunter College, where a "wicked female ... harass[ed] a very beautiful girl," which is one of the events that prompted his retirement.