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Edgar Allan Poe:

An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center


Descriptive Summary

Creator: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Title: Edgar Allan Poe Collection
Dates: 1766-1974, (bulk 1829-1850)
Abstract: The Poe Collection contains a few handwritten works and about 70 letters written by Poe, while the bulk of the collection consists of correspondence and works about him.
RLIN Record ID: TXRC99-A0
Extent: 11 boxes (4.58 linear feet), 3 galley folders, 4 oversize boxes, and 9 oversize folders
Language English.
Repository: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Sketch

Edgar Poe was born in Boston, January 19, 1809, the second child of Eliza Arnold Poe, a well-known actress, and David Poe, Jr., also an actor. Early in 1810 David Poe abandoned his family; nothing is known of his fate. Later that same year Eliza gave birth to her third child, Rosalie. By the summer of 1811 Eliza's health was failing and she died on December 8, 1811, in Richmond, Virginia, at the age of 24. The eldest son went to live with the Poe family in Baltimore, the infant daughter went to a Richmond family named MacKenzie, and Edgar was taken in by John and Frances (Fannie) Allan.

John Allan, a partner in the trading firm The House of Ellis and Allan, promised to provide Edgar with a liberal education and he certainly provided the boy with a standard of living superior to the one to which he had been accustomed. The House of Ellis and Allan was prospering so well that in 1815 they decided to open an office in London. Six-and-a-half-year-old Edgar accompanied John and Fannie to England where he attended several boarding schools. After a slow beginning, the London offices seemed to be doing well. However, in 1819 the bottom fell out of the tobacco market, the business was ruined, and the family returned to Virginia in 1820.

As John Allan sought to regain his financial footing, Edgar continued his schooling, doing well in Latin, French, and sports, often leading the other boys in games and battle drills. Poe faced many of the psychological problems associated with orphans--feelings of abandonment and a need to not just succeed, but to win--and the fact that John Allan never formally adopted him seems to have added to his emotional issues.

In 1825 a wealthy relative died and left a large fortune to John Allan, immediately solving his business and financial woes. In 1826 Poe entered the University of Virginia, then in its second year. Poe acquitted himself well as a student, studying ancient and modern languages, but also ran up debts which added to the growing friction between himself and Allan. Poe wished to remain at the University beyond the usual one year term, but Allan refused, wishing instead for Poe to settle himself in some business. After a series of angry clashes, Poe left the Allan home in Richmond and went to Boston. Finding it difficult to support himself, Poe enlisted in the Army. He remained there for two years, reaching the rank of Sergeant Major for artillery, before deciding that he had had enough. He sought Allan's aid in obtaining a discharge but help came grudgingly and only after Poe declared his intention to attend West Point.

Poe's term at West Point lasted just a year, from March of 1830 to March of 1831. He performed well in the beginning but late in the year John Allan remarried (Fannie Allan had died while Edgar was in the army), and wrote to Poe stating his wish for an end to their relationship. These events affected Poe's desire for the military life and he set about getting himself court-martialed and discharged from West Point. From there he went to New York City. In April he made his way to Baltimore to seek aid from the remaining members of his father's family. He moved in with his aunt, Maria Clemm and her daughter, Virginia. Over the next three years little is known about Poe's activities. He had difficulty supporting himself, he may have been briefly engaged, or at least attached, to a young woman whose family objected, and he spent time with his brother who was also living in Baltimore. He also wrote a great deal. He had been writing steadily over the previous ten years, publishing two small pamphlets at his own expense, and his goal became making a living with his writing.

In 1834 Poe married his cousin Virginia, who was not quite fourteen at the time, and began seriously seeking a means of supporting "his family." In the spring of 1835 the family moved back to Richmond where Poe took a position with the Southern Literary Messenger. Poe used the opportunity to publish several of his poems and short tales in the paper, but he also began developing his reputation as a pugnacious critic by contributing scathing reviews of popular contemporary authors. In 1837 Poe left his position as editor of the Messenger by mutual agreement with the owner after a number of disagreements over Poe's vicious articles.

Poe spent the rest of his life attempting to establish himself as a creditable force on the American literary scene. He tried to start his own literary paper on several occasions, but when that failed he continued to work for other papers in the capacity of critic and editor, most notably Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in Philadelphia (1839-1840) and the Broadway Journal in New York (1845). Poe's desire to be in charge, his vituperative critical attacks on people he disliked or disagreed with, coupled with an ongoing problem with alcohol made it difficult for him to maintain a long-term working relationship with magazine owners and editors.

In 1847 Virginia Poe died after a long battle with tuberculosis. Poe was devastated. Suffering ill-health himself, and beaten down after his long battle with poverty, he continued to write and lecture, but his mental state seemed to decline. He was found unconscious on a street in Baltimore in the fall of 1849 and he died on October 7. A brief obituary in the Baltimore Clipper reported that he died of "congestion of the brain." It has been assumed by most scholars that alcoholism killed Poe, but a new theory which is gaining credence speculates that Poe actually died of rabies.

Scope and Contents

Poems, essays, correspondence, and catalogs make up the bulk of the Edgar Allan Poe Collection, 1766-1974 (bulk 1829-1850). The collection is organized into two series: I. Poe Works and Letters, 1829-1911 (2 boxes), and II. Materials about Poe and His Works, 1766-1974 (9 boxes). This collection has been re-cataloged as part of a retrospective conversion project.

The Poe Works and Letters Series contains about fifteen mostly holograph works written by Poe, some of which are fragments and all of which are from the last fourteen years of his life. About 70 letters from Poe are also present, spanning 1829-1849 and readily demonstrating Poe's wide range of correspondents. Most of the letters are personal, though many include details of business and pleas for loans. Many of Poe's letters and works are accompanied by correspondence between book dealers and William Koester, descriptions of the items as they appeared in auction or sale catalogues, and other provenance information.

Materials about Poe and His Works is a broad-ranging series which encompasses a large number of letters between friends, relatives, collectors, and critics of Poe. While not all of the correspondence is specifically about Poe, it provides context for his life. Also included in this series are a number of works, most about Poe's life and work, but also some contextual works. Additionally, there are many items of Poe ephemera, much of it collected by James Whitty, as well as a number of items withdrawn from books donated by Poe scholars and fans, and a few items of forged materials which were at one time attributed to Poe.

Restrictions

Access

Many items from the Poe Collection are currently included in an exhibition and will be unavailable to patrons until the end of 2009. Digital surrogates are available in the Reading and Viewing Room for these materials.

Index Terms

Correspondents
Allan, John, 1780-1834
Allen, Hervey, 1889-1949
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
Clemm, Maria Poe, 1790-1871
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Didier, Eugene Lemoine, 1839-1913
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Griswold, W. M. (William McGillis), 1853-
Ingram, John Henry, 1842-1916
Lewis, Estelle Anna Robinson, 1824-1880
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Minor, Benjamin Blake, 1818-1905
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908
Varner, John Grier
Weiss, Susan Archer Talley, 1835-
Whitman, Sara Helen, 1803-1878
Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930
Subjects
American literature
Fiction--19th century
Horror--Poetry
Mystery and detective stories
Document Types
Forgeries
Galley proofs
Legal instruments
Postcards
Collectors
collector Koester, William H.
collector Whitty, J. H. (James Howard), 1859-1937

Related Material

Other materials associated with Poe may be found in the following collections at the Ransom Center:

  • Campbell, Killis
  • Ellery Queen
  • Gardner, Erle Stanley
  • Lake, Carlton/Poe, EA
  • Lake, Carlton/Stein, G
  • Lowell, J.R.
  • Varner, John Grier

Separated Material

Elsewhere in the Ransom Center is an extensive collection of newspaper clippings and other printed material covering the publication and criticism of Poe's work (21 Vertical File folders), as well as five scrapbooks primarily containing newspaper clippings. There are also over 50 photographs of Poe, his family, friends, and collectors, located in the Literary Files of the Photography Collection. The Personal Effects Collection includes a desk used by Poe (which is on display in the Reading and Viewing Room) among other items, and a large number of related art pieces are located in the Art Collection. A number of newspapers which contain Poe contributions are preserved in their entirety and can be accessed via the UT Library Catalog by performing an Other Call Number search for "newspaper KPO."

Administrative Information

Provenance

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center acquired its collection of Poeana largely through the purchase of the James H. Whitty and William H. Koester collections. Two of the most active American gatherers of Poe materials, Whitty and Koester are thought to have held the largest private collections of Poeana anywhere.

James H. Whitty pulled together an impressive collection of Poe-related materials including many letters, signatures, receipts, and contextual working materials which he used in writing The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1911) and The Genius and Character of Edgar Allan Poe (1929).

William H. Koester began collecting Poeana in the early 1930s. He completed over 60 purchases of signed letters, poems, essays, and short stories, as well as the Whitty Collection, acquiring between 1934 and 1947 most of the original Poe materials available for sale. He obtained two unpublished letters and variants of two critical essays by the time of his last purchase in 1962.

The University of Texas at Austin acquired the Whitty-Koester collection in 1966. Additional Poe materials have been purchased at auction, from book dealers, and from private individuals. A few items in the collection were originally included in the Wrenn and Hanley collections.

Acquisition

Purchases, 1960-1969 (R162, R2915, R3082, R3370, R3844, R3889, R4303, R5390)

Processed by

Chelsea Jones, 1998

Source

Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991).

Edgar A. Poe Collection--Detailed Description

 

Series I. Poe Works and Letters, 1829-1911

The Poe Works and Letters Series is divided into four subseries: A. Works, 1835-1911 (.5 box), B. Letters, 1829-1849 (1.5 boxes); C. Legal Documents, 1841-1848 (1 folder); and D. Personal Effects (2 folders). Because each title and letter in this series is listed individually in the Folder List, there is no Index of Works nor is Poe correspondence included in the Index of Correspondents at the end of this guide.
The Works Subseries, arranged alphabetically by title, includes fourteen complete and partial critical essays written by Poe as well as two long tales and six drafts and copies of poems. A complete version of The Domain of Arnheim written on small pieces of paper connected together and rolled into two scrolls is particularly noteworthy as is a bound copy of The Raven and Other Poems with annotations by Poe. Other complete pieces include holograph and typescript versions of “The Spectacles,” a Valentine's Day poem to Miss Olivia Hunter, an untitled article on Laughton Osborn, and an essay on American poetesses. Fragmentary pieces of other works are also available including parts of The Literati, Marginalia, and a fair copy of the last stanza of “The Raven.” A particularly beautiful manuscript is a bound volume entitled Selected Illuminated Poems which was transcribed, illuminated, and bound by Messrs. Robert Riviere & Son in 1911. Each of Poe's works are listed in the folder list.
The Letters Subseries contains 71 complete and fragmentary letters written by Poe between 1829 and 1849. While the majority of the these letters are personal correspondence many of the letters carry a business-like tone (Poe frequently sought financial support from his friends and acquaintances, either in an effort to start a new project or merely for subsistence). The recipients of this correspondence include Charles Bristed, George Eveleth, George Graham, Horace Greeley, Rufus Griswold, Sarah J. Hale, John P. Kennedy, Estelle Anna Lewis, John Neal, Frances S. Osgood, Frederick W. Thomas, Sarah Helen Whitman, and others. Each letter is listed in the folder list.
The small Legal Documents Subseries includes several promissory notes signed by Poe to various friends and business partners including John W. Albright, John Bisco, and Harnden & Co., as well as contracts signed with John Bisco and G.P. Putnam. A list of individual items is provided at the end of this guide. The Personal Effects Subseries includes a lock of Poe's hair and a file of letters and certified documents authenticating the desk on display in the Ransom Center's Reading Room reception area as being Poe's when he worked for the Southern Literary Messenger.
Subseries A. Works, 1835-1911
Untitled works
box folder
1 1 Article on Laughton Osborn, holograph, ca. 1848,
2pp
2 Critique of Eugene Sue's "The Wandering Jew", holograph fragment, ca. 1848,
1p
3 Essay on American Poetesses, holograph with author emendations, 12pp (from the Wrenn Collection) nd,
4 "The Bells" by Mrs. M.L. Shew, holograph, 1848,
1p
"The Coliseum," holograph in M.E.Herring's guest book, 1841,
located on folio 13 (removed to oversize box at end of collection)
The Domain of Arnheim, holograph scrolls, nd,
(removed to oversize box)
5 "Eulalie," holograph, ca. 1843-1944,
1p
6 Fifty Suggestions, holograph fragment, 1849,
1p
7 The Literati of New York
Henry Cary, holograph, 1849,
2pp
S. Anna Lewis, holograph fragments, 1848,
2pp (from the Wrenn Collection)
Richard Adams Locke, holograph fragment, 1846,
1p (from the Wrenn Collection)
Laughton Osborne, holograph, ca. 1849,
2pp
Frances Sargent Osgood, holograph, 1849,
2pp
H.B. Hirst, holograph, nd,
1p ( removed to galley folder 1) (from A. Edward Newton's library)
Marginalia
8 "John Neal is by no means..." holograph fragment, ca. 1848,
1p
9 Holograph fragment, 1849,
1pp
10 Politian, a Tragedy, holograph, 1835,
1p
11 The Rationale of Verse, holograph fragments, 1848,
2pp
12 "The Raven," holograph fair copy of last stanza, ca. 1846,
1p
The Raven and Other Poems, printed works bound together with author's annotations, 1845,
and original presentation box (removed to 2 oversize boxes)
Selected Illuminated Poems, illuminated manuscript, bound and illuminated by Messrs. Robert Riviere & Son, includes The Raven, The Bells, and Lenore, 1911,
16pp (removed to oversize box)
13 "The Spectacles," holograph and typescript, 1844,
38pp
14 "To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter," holograph, 1846,
1p
Subseries B. Letters, 1829-1849
15 Unidentified recipient, 16 June 1846
16 Bird, Robert. 7 June 1836
Bristed, Charles Astor, 1820-1874
17 17 Jan. 1847
18 7 June 1848
19 Bush, George, 1796-1859. 4 Jan. 1845
20 Carter, Robert, 1807-1889. 7 March 1843
21 Causten, James H., 1788-1874. 3 June 1836
22 Cist, Lewis J. (Lewis Jacob), 1818-1885. 18 Sept. 1841
23 Clark, Mr. nd
24 Cooke, Philip Pendleton, 1816-1850. 12 Jan. 1846
25 Dunnell, T.L. 27 Nov. 1848
26 Earle, Pliny, 1809-1892. 10 Oct. 1840
Eveleth, George Washington
27 16 April 1846
28 11 March 1847
29 4 Jan. 1848
Graham, George Rex, 1813-1894
30 25 Sept. 1841 - 31 March 1842
31 (from the Hanley Collection) 10 March 1845
32 Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. 21 Feb. 1847
Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857
33 Spring 1841
(from the Wrenn Collection)
34 nd
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
35 29 May 1844
36 26 Oct. 1845
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 1790-1867
37 7 June 1836
38 10 Jan. 1846
39 Hamilton, Robert, 1809?-1878. 3 Oct. 1842
Herron, James
40 June 1842
41 30 June 1842
42 Hewitt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1807-1894. 20 March 1845
43 Holden, Ezra. 26 Aug. 1843
44 Jones, J. B. (James Beauchamp), 1810-1866. 8 Aug. 1839
Keese, John, 1805-1856
45 26 May 1845
46 9 June 1845
47 Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870. 19 Dec. 1834
box folder
2 1 Landor, William. 7 July 1841
2 Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886. May 1829
3 Lea & Blanchard. 13 Aug. 1841
4 Lester, C. Edwards (Charles Edwards), 1815-1890. 10 Jan. 1846
Lewis, Estelle Anna Robinson, 1824-1880
5 17 May 1849
6 7 July 1849
7 18 Sep. 1849
Locke, Jane E. (Jane Ermina), 1805-1859
8 19 May 1848
9 Oct. 1848
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
10 27 Dec. 1842
11 20 June 1843
12 Mackenzie, John, fl. 1843. 3 April 1843
13 Marshall, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1823-1872. May 1848
14 Maubey, Jerome A. 28 April 1846
15 McJilton, J. N. (John Nelson), 1805-1875. 13 March 1842
Minor, Lucian, 1802-1858
16 10 March 1836
17 18 Aug. 1840
18 Myers, John C. 1 March 1844
Neal, John, 1793-1876
19 29 Dec. 1829
20 4 Sept. 1835
21 4 June 1840
22 Osgood, Frances Sargeant Locke, (from the Wrenn Collection) 1811-1850. Oct. 1845
23 Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872. 18 May 1849
24 Richmond, Nancy Heywood, (also known as Richmond, Annie L.) 1820-1898 16 June 1849
25 Root, H.S. 28 June 1849
26 Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntly), 1791-1865. 12 April 1836
27 Snodgrass, Joseph Evans. 11 Nov. 1839
28 Sutherland, J. B. 13 Jan. 1844
29 Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878. 15 June 1848
Thomas, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1806-1866
30 23 Nov. 1840
31 4 July 1841
32 24 Sep. 1841
33 25 May 1842
34 14 May 1845
35 Thompson, C.W. 28 June 1840
36 Thompson, John Reuben, 1823-1873. 31 Jan. 1849
37 Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878. Nov. 1848
38 Wyatt, Thomas. 1 April 1841
39 Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867. 13 Nov. 1841
Subseries C. Legal Documents, 1841-1848
40 Promissory notes and memoranda of agreement
Subseries D. Personal Effects
41 Lock of Poe's hair
42 Paperwork re authentication of Poe's desk


 

Series II. Materials about Poe and His Works, 1766-1974

The Materials about Poe and His Works Series is divided into four subseries: A. Works about Poe, 1766-1973 (5.5 boxes), B. Correspondence about Poe, 1780-1974 (2.5 boxes), C. Poe Ephemera and Book Withdrawals (1 box); and D. Poe Forgeries (1 folder). Some of this material is, at best, loosely associated with Poe, and represents the collecting proclivities of Whitty and Koester.
The Works about Poe Subseries, arranged alphabetically by author, contains Hervey Allen's Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, Julian Hawthorne's “My Adventure with Edgar Allan Poe,” Thomas Mabbot's thesis “New Light on Poe: Additional Notes on the Poems Prior to 1831,” and Walt Whitman's essay “Edgar Poe's Significance.” In addition to writings specifically about Poe there are a number of poems by Poe's contemporaries and a few items which provide historical context for Poe's life. These include a 1781 essay by David Poe beginning “Petition by Citizens...,” a contract for the sale of land by Joseph Logan in 1818, poems by Estelle Lewis, and John Ambler's Last Will and Testament (1766). Also present in this section are several works describing the Whitty and Koester collections. Individual items in this section are listed in the Index of Works by Other Authors at the end of this guide.
The Correspondence about Poe Subseries contains materials specifically relating to Poe as well as to the collection of his writings. For example, William Griswold carried on extensive correspondence with George Woodberry concerning a proposed book “The Life of Edgar Allan Poe,” which was never written, and several letters were written to Griswold seeking to purchase his Poe materials. There are also a few letters from people associated with Poe, such as John Allan and Maria Clemm, which are present because of that association, rather than any specific references to Poe in their letters. Some of the more notable correspondents in this section include Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens, Horace Greeley, William Griswold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John P. Kennedy, William Koester, David Poe, Edmund Stedman, James H. Whitty, George Woodberry, and others. Individual writers are listed in the Index of Correspondents at the end of this guide.
Poe Ephemera and Book Withdrawals includes booksellers descriptions of Poe materials, letterhead and bills from hotels Poe stayed in (not bills to Poe), notes and letters found in collections of books by and about Poe donated to the Ransom Center, and a collection of receipts and signatures of people connected to Poe or who are otherwise well known. A list of the authors of these signatures and receipts is included at the end of this guide.
The final Subseries is Poe Forgeries. This section contains two letters and one poem which were previously attributed to Poe but which have since been identified as forgeries. The poem “Lady Hubbard” was printed in Godey's Magazine in December 1949 along with a letter, dated April 1, 1949. The second letter, addressed to Thomas Field and dated August 9, 1945 was traced, it is thought, from the cover of the William E. Benjamin Catalogue, a rare catalogue of Poe materials, or possibly from the original letter. The original letter was most recently located in the Bradley Martin Collection, New York.
Subseries A. Works about Poe, 1766-1973
box folder
3 1 Unidentified; A-L
1844 Map of Boston with unidentified annotations, nd,
1p (removed to oversize folder 2)
Ulaluna, ca. 1905,
(removed to oversize folder 10)
Allen, Hervey, Israfel; The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe (1927), holograph and author revisions and typescript paste-ins, 1925,
1500pp
2 Volume I (in a wrapper)
box folder
4 1-6 Volume II
7 Comments on Israfel..., re copyright issues between M.E. Phillips and Hervey Allen and their Poe biographies and list of errata in Israfel, typescript, signed by Mary E. Phillips, nd,
12pp
Ambler, John, Last Will and Testament, 1766,
1p (removed to oversize folder 1)
box folder
5 1 Ambler, Philip St. George, Journal of a trip on horseback in Virginia, holograph, nd,
28pp
2 Cooke, John Esten, 'Poe, as a Literary Critic,' holograph, unpublished essay, 1851,
23pp
3 Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, Commonplace book, holograph notes, nd,
6pp
4 Dorset, Gerald, An Aristocrat of Intellect, typescript with annotations, 1957,
76pp
5 Fitzgerald, O.P., Edgar Allen Poe, holograph essay, includes letter to James H. Whitty, 1910,
4pp
Hartman, Charles Frederick, Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of E. A. Poe, galley sheets, nd,
53pp (removed to galley folder 2)
6 Hawthorne, Julian, My Adventure with Edgar Allan Poe, ca. 1891,
10pp
7 Horne, Richard Henry, Orion, holograph first draft, 1842-1843,
78pp
8 Lewis, Estelle Anna Robinson, holograph poems, includes a letter from James H. Whitty, ca. 1874,
5pp
9 Logan, Joseph D., holograph contract for sale of land, 1818,
1p
box folder
6 1 M-Z
2 Mabbott, Thomas Olive, New Light on Poe: Additional Notes on the Poems Prior to 1831, holograph thesis, 1921,
90pp
3 Matthews, Brander, Poe's Cosmopolitan Fame, holograph essay with author's revisions, nd,
33pp
4 Poe, David, “Petition by citizens...,” 1781,
3pp
Pumfrey & Fitzwhylsonn (firm), Day book, holograph account in leather bound folio volume, 1804-1805
(oversize bound volume shelved at end of collection)
5 Steadman, Edmund Clarence, Introduction to the Literary Criticism of Poe, holograph essay, 1895,
38pp
6 Symons, Arthur, On the Misconception of Poe, holograph and typescript essay, nd,
12pp
7 Thomas, George, Trustee report concerning sale of property in Washington City, typescript document, 1840,
1p
8 Whitman, Walt, Edgar Poe's Significance, holograph essay with author revisions,
5pp
Whitty, James H.
9 Edgar Allan Poe Census, holograph list bound in a leather volume, 1850-1853,
84pp
10 Holograph notes and fragments, 1927-1928, nd
Untitled article to accompany reproduction of portraits, nd,
3pp (removed to oversize folder 4)
box folder
7 1 Woodberry, George Edward, Memoir, holograph with author revisions, nd,
96pp
Works about the Ransom Center Poe Collection
2 Catalogue of the Whitty Collection, typescript, nd,
152pp
3 Goode, Richard, A Catalogue of the Koester Collection, typescript, nd,
150pp
Moldenhauer, Joseph J.
4 A Descriptive Catalogue of Edgar Allan Poe Manuscripts, typescript, ca. 1973,
about 200pp
5 Edgar Allan Poe Manuscripts from the Koester Collection at the University of Texas, typescript, ca. 1967,
approx. 150pp
box
8 Welch, Carol Elizabeth
1 Letters from the Whitty Collection, typescript thesis, 1968,
208pp
2 Research notecards, holograph notes, nd,
200pp
Subseries B. Correspondence about Poe, 1780-1974
3 Unidentified; A-B
4 Allan, John, 1816-1824
(6 letters removed to oversize folder 6)
Allan, Mary, holograph letter to John Allan, 1817
(removed to oversize folder 6)
5 Baudelaire, Charles Pierre (in French), 1857-1859
6 C
7 Clemm, Maria (Poe), 1850-1866
8 D
9 Didier, Eugene, 1896-1912
10 E-F
box folder
9 1 Fields, James Thomas, 1862
2 G
3 Greeley, Horace, 1846-1862
4 Griswold, William M., 1883-1893
5 H
6 Haines, Hiram, 1835-1836
Hammond, Charles, 1828
(removed to oversize folder 7)
Hawkes, Francis Lister, 1848
(removed to oversize folder 7)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1842
(removed to oversize folder 8)
Huse, John, 1829-1830
(removed to oversize folder 8)
7 I-K
Ingram, John Henry
8 General, 1887-1909
9 To James Whitty, 1904-1910
10 Inman, Henry, 1832
11 Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1842-1846
12 Koester, William H., letters received from librarians and book dealers, 1933-1960
13 L
14 Longfellow, Henry W., 1845
15 M
16 Minor, Benjamin Blake, 1902-1905
Myers, Moses, 1844
(removed to oversize folder 9)
17 N-O
box folder
10 1 P
Pleasants, James, 1820
(removed to oversize folder 9)
Poe, David
2 1780
3 1794
4 Poe, Rosalie, 1832
5 Q-R
6 Quinn, Arthur H., 1941-1943
Robertson, William Joseph, 1834
(removed to oversize folder 10)
7 S
8 Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1896-1902
9 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1876
10 T
11 Tomkins, Daniel, 1861
12 U-W
13 Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power), 1850-1876
Whitty, James Howard
14 General, 1917-1931
15 To Library of Congress, 1919
16 Drafts to Modern Language Notes, nd
17 Letters received from libraries, book dealers and scholars, 1904-1934
Woodbury, George Edward
18 To James Whitty, 1902-1929
19 To William Griswold, 1894-1896
Subseries C. Poe Ephemera and Book Withdrawals
box folder
11 1-2 Poe ephemera
3 Booksellers notes and pamphlets
4 Receipts and signatures
Dana, Charles Anderson, Certificate of Appointment, signed by Dana, 1865,
1p (removed to oversize folder 2)
Slaughter, David F., endorsement on a true copy of a power of attorney, 1836,
1p (removed to oversize folder 3)
Stevenson, Andrew, U.S. Passport issued by the U.S. Legation in London, 1840,
1p (removed to oversize folder 5)
Items withdrawn from books about Poe
5 Notes and newspaper clippings
6 Letters and pictures
Subseries D. Poe Forgeries
7 Unknown authors--forged holograph letter and poem [The Lady Hubbard] published in Poe's name in December 1849, letter is dated 1 April 1849; and forged holograph letter to Field, Thomas Warren, 9 Aug. 1845


 Edgar A. Poe Collection--Index of Correspondents 

Box and folder numbers are followed by a number in parenthesis which indicates the number of items by that person. A single item is indicated where there is no number in parenthesis following the box and folder number.

Campbell, Killis, 1872-1937--8.6 (4)

There are 4 letters from Killis Campbell in Box 8, Folder 6. And in the example,

Ambler, John--8.3

there is one letter from John Ambler located in Box 8, Folder 3.

This index pertains to the letters filed in the Correspondence about Poe subseries in the Materials about Poe and His Works Series.

  • Aldrich, James, 1810-1856--8.3
  • Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907--8.3
  • Allan, John, 1780-1834--8.4 (4), oversize folder 6 (6)
  • Allan, John, Mrs.--8.3
  • Allan, Mary--oversize folder 6
  • Allen, Hervey, 1889-1949--8.3 (4)
  • Ambler, John--8.3
  • Anthon, Charles, 1797-1867--8.3 (2)
  • Armstrong, William J. (William Jessup), 1796-1846--8.3
  • Arthur, T.S. (Timothy Shay), 1809-1885--8.3
  • Bartel, I.G.--8.3
  • Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867--8.5 (3)
  • Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922--8.3
  • Benjamin, Park, 1809-1864--8.3
  • Benjamin, Walter, 1854-1943--8.3
  • Benton, Joel, 1832-1911--8.3
  • Bingham, Clarence S.--8.3
  • Bisco, John--8.3
  • Bogkin, Francis M.--8.3
  • Botta, Vincenzo, 1818-1894--8.3
  • Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890--8.3
  • Briggs, Charles Frederick, 1804-1877--8.3
  • Brinley, George, 1817-1875--8.3
  • Brooks, N.C. (Nathan Covington), 1809-1898--8.3
  • Browne, William Hand, 1828-1912--8.3
  • Brure, Melissa Alexandra--8.3
  • Burton, William E. (William Evans), 1802-1860--8.3
  • Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958--8.6 (2)
  • Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925--8.6
  • Cairnes, William B.--8.6 (2)
  • Campbell, John D.--8.6
  • Campbell, Killis, 1872-1937--8.6 (4)
  • Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879--8.6
  • Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839--8.6 (2)
  • Carroll, Lewis--See Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
  • Carter, B.F.--8.6
  • The Century Magazine--8.6 (14)
  • Chase, F.A.--8.6
  • Chase, Maude Dailey--8.6 (7)
  • Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857--8.6
  • Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880--8.6
  • Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 1808-1873--8.6
  • Clark, Willis Gaylord, 1808-1841--8.6
  • Clemm, Maria Poe, 1790-1871--8.7 (8)
  • Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866--8.6
  • Combe, George, 1788-1858--8.6
  • Conrad, Robert Taylor, 1810-1858--8.6
  • Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905--8.6
  • Cooke, Philip Pendleton, 1816-1850--8.6
  • Cottrell, Charles Herbert--8.6
  • Cowardin, Samuel Pendleton, Jr.--8.6
  • Crawford, Rebekah, 1845-1934--8.6
  • Cullum, George W. (George Washington), 1809-1892--8.6
  • Curtis, George William, 1824-1892--8.6
  • Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879--8.6
  • Dailey, Charlotte F.--8.8 (2)
  • Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1881-1950--8.8 (2)
  • Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882--8.8
  • Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888--8.8
  • Davenport, Allen--8.8
  • Davidson, James Wood, 1829-1905--8.8 (3)
  • Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910--8.8
  • Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861--8.8
  • Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--8.8 (2)
  • Didier, Eugene Lemoine, 1839-1913--8.9 (6)
  • Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898--8.8
  • Douglas-Lithgow, R.A. (Robert Alexander), 1846-1917--8.8 (5)
  • Drayton, William, 1776-1846--8.8
  • Duane, William, 1808-1882--8.8
  • Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878--8.8
  • Eames, Elizabeth J.--8.10
  • Eaton, John Henry, 1790-1856--8.10
  • Ellet, E.F. (Elizabeth Fries), 1818-1877--8.10
  • Elliott, Mary--8.10
  • Ellis, Charles, 1790?-1868--8.10
  • Ellis, Thomas H. (Thomas Hardy), 1814-1898--8.10 (2)
  • Embury, Daniel--8.10
  • English, Thomas Dunn, 1819-1902--8.10
  • Enoch Pratt Free Library--8.10
  • Essman, Manuel--8.10
  • Eveleth, George Washington--8.10 (4)
  • Facsimile Text Society--8.10
  • Fancher, E.L. (Enoch Lewis), 1817-1900--8.10
  • Farrar, John, 1779-1853--8.10
  • Fay, Theodore S. (Theodore Sedgwick), 1807-1898--8.10 (2)
  • Fields, Annie, 1834-1915--8.10
  • Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881--9.1
  • Fitzgerald, Oscar Penn, 1829-1911--8.10
  • Fitzsimmons, Ellen M.--8.10
  • Fontainas, André, 1865- --8.10 (5)
  • Foote, Charles, 1837-1900--8.10
  • Forrest, Edwin, 1806-1872--8.10
  • Fowlds, Allan--8.10
  • French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931--8.10 (2)
  • Fuller, Hiram, 1814-1880--8.10
  • Galt, William--9.2 (3)
  • Garnett, James M. (James Mercer), 1770-1843--9.2 (2)
  • Gas Light Company of Baltimore--9.2
  • Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924--9.2
  • Gill, William Fearing, 1844-1917--9.2 (2)
  • Gilmer, Francis Walker, 1790-1826--9.2 (2)
  • Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilworth), 1801-1860--9.2
  • Gimbel, Richard--9.2
  • Godey, Louise Antoine, 1804-1878--9.2
  • Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)--9.2
  • Gor'kü, Maksim, 1868-1936--9.2
  • Gowans, William, 1803-1870--9.2
  • Graham, George R., 1813-1894--9.2 (2)
  • Graham, John Lorimer, 1797-1876--9.2
  • Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872--9.3 (3)
  • Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928--9.2
  • Griswold, Anne M.--9.2 (8)
  • Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857--9.2 (3)
  • Griswold, W.M. (William McGillis), 1853- --9.4 (41)
  • H.C. Carey & I. Lea (firm)--9.5 (4)
  • Haines, Hirram--9.6 (2)
  • Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879--9.5
  • Hale, Thomas, Jr.--9.5
  • Halsey, Frederick Robert--9.5
  • Hammond, Charles, 1779-1840--oversize folder 7
  • Harris, Amanda Bartlett, 1824-1917--9.5
  • Harrison, James Albert, 1848-1911--9.5 (8)
  • Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866--oversize folder 7
  • Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846--9.5
  • Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 1830-1886--9.5
  • Heartman, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1883-1953--9.5
  • Heath, James Ewell, 1792-1862--9.5 (3)
  • Hermance, W.F.--9.5 (2)
  • Herring, John Q.A.--9.5
  • Hewitt, H.C.--9.5
  • Heysinger, Isaac W. (Isaac Winter), b. 1842--9.5 (3)
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911--9.5
  • Hill, Edwin Bliss, 1866-1949--9.5
  • Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1798-1870--9.5
  • Holly, D.M.--9.5
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894--oversize folder 8
  • Hopkins, Fred--9.5 (2)
  • Hopkinson, Joseph, 1770-1842--9.5
  • Howard, Joshua, 1793-1868--9.5
  • Howe, S. J., Mrs.--9.5
  • Hubard, William James, 1807-1862--9.5
  • Hughes, Robert W. (Robert William), 1821-1901--9.5 (2)
  • Hunt, Freeman, 1804-1858--9.5
  • Hunter, R.M.T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887--9.5
  • Hurst, J.F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903--9.5 (3)
  • Huse, John--oversize folder 8 (4)
  • Ingram, John Henry, 1842-1916--9.8-9 (35)
  • Inman, Henry, 1801-1846--9.10
  • Johnson, Reginald Brimley, 1867--9.7 (2)
  • Johnston, Andrew, 1805-1864--9.7
  • Johnston, Edward William--9.7 (3)
  • Jones, Samuel, 1769-1853--9.7
  • Jones, William Alfred, 1817-1900--9.7
  • Katz, Joseph, 1907- --9.7
  • Keeling, Annie M.--9.7
  • Keese, William L. (William Linn), 1835-1904--9.7
  • Kegerreis, Robert--9.7
  • Kelly, William Valentine, b. 1843--9.7
  • Kelsey, R.W.--9.7 (2)
  • Kemble, Frances Anne, 1809-1893--9.7
  • Kennan, B.--9.7
  • Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870--9.11 (5)
  • Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936--9.7
  • Koester, William H.--9.7, 9.12 (24)
  • Lacroix, P.L., 1806-1884--9.13
  • Lane, Thomas H.--9.13
  • Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912--9.13
  • Latrobe, John H.B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891--9.13
  • Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909--9.13
  • Lee, C.C.--9.13
  • Leigh, Oliver--9.13
  • Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859--9.13
  • Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858--9.13
  • Lewis, Estelle Anna Robinson, 1824-1880--9.13
  • Lewis, Sylvanus D.--9.13
  • Lewis, Tayler, 1802-1877--9.13
  • Lithgow, R.A. Douglas--See Douglas-Lithgow, R.A. (Robert Alexander)
  • Livingston, Luther Samuel, 1869-1914--9.13
  • Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871--9.13
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--9.14
  • Loomis, Elias, 1811-1889--9.13
  • Loveday, A.S., Mrs.--9.13
  • Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891--9.13 (2)
  • Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947 --9.15
  • Mackenzie, Flora L.--9.15
  • Mälzel, Johann Nepomuk, 1772-1838--9.15
  • Mason, Edgar--9.15
  • Mauclaire, Camille--9.15 (2)
  • Mayo, Louise R.--9.15
  • Mayo, Sarah C. Edgarton (Sarah Carter Edgarton), 1819-1848--9.15 (2)
  • McCreary, William--9.15
  • McIntosh, Maria J. (Maria Jane), 1803-1878--9.15
  • McLean, John, 1785-1861--9.15
  • Miller, Jane MacKenzie Bird--9.15 (4)
  • Minor, Benjamin Blake, 1818-1905--9.16 (8)
  • Minor, D.K.--9.15
  • Minor, J.--9.15
  • Minor, Lucian, 1802-1858--9.15
  • Montgomery, Robert, 1807-1855--9.15
  • Moran, John J.--9.15 (2)
  • Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880--9.15
  • Mott, — --9.15
  • Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858--9.15
  • Müller, Henry--9.15
  • Murdock, James, 1811-1893--9.15
  • Myers, Moses--oversize folder 9
  • Neal, John, 1793-1876--9.17
  • Nelson, William--9.17 (2)
  • Nicholas, Robert Carter, 1793-1857--9.17
  • Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908--9.17
  • O'Conner, John Michael--9.17
  • Ortensi, Ulisse--9.17
  • Osborne, Duffield, 1858-1917--9.17 (2)
  • Osborne, Laughton, 1809-1878--9.17 (2)
  • Osgood, Samuel Stillman--9.17
  • Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918--10.1
  • Painter, F.V.N. (Franklin Verzilius Newton), 1852-1931--10.1
  • Parma, V. Valts, 1878-1941--10.1
  • Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854--10.1
  • Patton, John S. (John Shelton), 1857-1932--10.1
  • Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860--10.1
  • Peachy, Thomas G.--10.1
  • Pendleton, E.--10.1
  • Peterson, Charles J. (Charles Jacobs), 1819-1887--10.1
  • Philes, George P. (George Philip), 1828-1913--10.1 (2)
  • Phillips, Mary Elizabeth, 1857-1945--10.1
  • The Players (firm) --10.1
  • Pleasants, James, 1769-1836--oversize folder 9
  • Poe, Amelia Fitzgerald--10.1 (4)
  • Poe, David, 1743?-1816--10.2-3 (2)
  • Poe, Neilson--10.1
  • Poe, Rosalie MacKenzie, 1810?-1874--10.4 (4)
  • Poe, William Leonard, 1807-1831--10.1
  • Poitiaux, Helen G.--10.1
  • Pope-Hennessy, Una, 1876-1949--10.1
  • Prescott, Frederick Clarke, 1871-1957--10.1 (3)
  • Pretlow, Mary Denson--10.1 (3)
  • Quinn, Arthur Hobson, 1875-1960--10.6 (9)
  • Randall, J., fl. 1832--galley 3
  • Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908--10.5
  • Rawle, Francis, 1846-1930--10.5
  • Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883--10.5 (2)
  • Rice, Sara Sigourney--10.5 (2)
  • Richardson, William, fl. 1809--10.5
  • Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916--10.5
  • Rives, William C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868--10.5
  • Robertson, William Joseph, 1817-1898--oversize folder 10
  • Sanborne, F.B. --10.7
  • Sartain, John, 1808-1897--10.7
  • Saunders, Frederick, 1807-1902--10.7
  • Saunders, Robert, Jr.--10.7
  • Scott, William R. (William Reese) --10.7
  • Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902--10.7 (2)
  • Sedgwick, Catherine Maria, 1789-1867--10.7
  • Seijo, Robert--10.7 (2)
  • Shelton, A.B.--10.7
  • Shelton, Sarah Elmira Royster, d. 1888--10.7
  • Shepard, Henry E. --10.7
  • Sigourney, L.H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865--10.7
  • Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870--10.7 (2)
  • Smith, Augustine C.--10.7
  • Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893--10.7
  • Smith, Seba, 1792-1868--10.7
  • Smith, William, 1797-1887--10.7
  • Snyder, A.C. --10.7
  • Spofford, Ernest--10.7 (2)
  • Stanard, Robert Craig, 1814-1857--10.7
  • Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974--10.7
  • Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908--10.8 (13)
  • Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia), 1810-1886--10.7
  • Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946--10.7
  • Stewart, Robert Armistead, 1877-1950--10.7 (2)
  • Stocking, Jane F.--10.7
  • Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903--10.7
  • Stone & Kimball (firm)--10.7
  • Stone, Margaret Ritchie--10.7
  • Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909--10.9 (2)
  • Tabb, John Banister, 1845-1909--10.10 (4)
  • Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878--10.10
  • Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--10.10
  • Thomas, Mary Von-Erden, b. 1825--10.10
  • Thompson, John Reuben, 1823-1873--10.10 (8)
  • Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937--10.10 (2)
  • Tilyard, K. Irene--10.10 (2)
  • Titus, Anson, Rev.--10.10
  • Tomkins, Daniel D.--10.11
  • Tucker, Beverley, 1784-1851--10.10
  • Tucker, George, 1775-1861--10.10
  • Tucker, Thomas Goode--10.10 (2)
  • Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1813-1871--10.10 (2)
  • Tyler, John, 1790-1862--10.10
  • Tyler, John, Jr.--10.10
  • Tyng, Stephen H. (Stephen Higginson), 1800-1885--10.10
  • Tyrrell, Henry--10.10
  • Tyson, J. Washington (James Washington), 1811-1869--10.10
  • Upshur, A.P. (Abel Parker), 1790-1844--10.12
  • Valentine, Edward Virginius, 1838-1930--10.12
  • Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944--10.12
  • Varner, John Grier--8.3 (included with Hervey Allen letters)
  • Vernon, Elizabeth--10.12 (5)
  • Walsh, Robert, 1784-1859--10.12
  • Waugh, Arthur, 1866-1943--10.12 (2)
  • Weiss, Susan Archer Talley, 1835- --10.12 (5)
  • Welcher, George Lewis--10.12
  • Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878--10.13 (8)
  • Whitty, J.H. (James Howard), 1859-1937--10.14-16 (10)
  • Wiley, William--10.12 (2)
  • Williamson, John, fl. 1834--10.12
  • Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867--10.12 (2)
  • Wirt, William, 1772-1834--10.12
  • Wister, Richard, 1805-1883--10.12
  • Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930--10.12 (2), 10.18-19 (39)
  • Woodberry, Sarah Caroline--10.12
  • Wrenshall, Letitia H. Y.--10.12 (2)

 Edgar A. Poe Collection--Index of Works by Other Authors 

Unidentified Authors


  • 1844 Map of Boston--oversize folder 2
  • Albion--3.1
  • Catalogue of the Whitty Collection--7.2
  • Elizabeth--3.1
  • Pan and Echo--3.1
  • Ulaluna--oversize folder 10

Identified Authors


  • Allen, Hervey
    • Israfel; The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe--3.2-4.6
  • Ambler, John
    • Last Will and Testament--oversize folder 1
  • Ambler, Philip St. George
    • Journal of a trip on horseback in Virginia--5.1
  • Bisco, John
    • Memorandum of contract with Charles F. Briggs re the Broadway Journal--galley folder 3
  • Botta, Anne Charlotte Lynch
    • To a Poet's Wife--3.1
  • Branch, J. R.
    • “This book is mine...”--3.1
  • Buckingham, Mr.
    • Lectures on Egypt and the Cities of the Nile--3.1
  • Campbell, Killis
    • Review of 'Poe and Southern Literary Messenger' by D.K. Jackson--3.1
  • Carroll, Lewis--see Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
  • Cooke, John Esten
    • 'Poe, as a Literary Critic'--5.2
  • Dewey, Orville
    • Statement concerning the American Civil War--3.1
  • Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
    • Commonplace book--5.3
  • Dorset, Gerald
    • An Aristocrat of Intellect--5.4
  • Embury, Emma C.
    • Sonnet--3.1
  • Eskine, John
    • Edgar Allen Poe, Jan. 19: 1809-1909--3.1
  • Eveleth, George Washington
    • Edgar A. Poe's addenda to his Eureka; with comments extracted from siftings by Sieve--3.1
  • Goode, Richard
    • A Catalogue of the Koester Collection--7.3
  • Fitzgerald, O.P.
    • Edgar Allan Poe--5.5
  • Hackley, Charles William
    • Inscription to Chevalier Bunsen--3.1
  • Hart, Joel T.
    • The Willow--3.1
  • Hartman, Charles Frederick
    • Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of E.A. Poe--galley folder 2
  • Hawthorne, Julian
    • My Adventure with Edgar Allan Poe--5.6
  • Herring, Mary Estelle
    • Guest book--Oversize box
  • Hewitt, John Hill
    • Edgar Allan Poe--3.1
  • Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth
    • Thought--3.1
  • Horne, Richard Henry
    • Orion--5.7
  • Ingram, John H.
    • The Poe Centenary in Europe--3.1
  • Ivan
    • Five Centuries Hence--3.1
  • Lewis, Estelle Anna Robinson
    • The Bard--5.8
    • Lines on Being Asked for My Autograph: An Impromptu--5.8
    • “The waves are...”--5.8
  • Lippincott, Sara Jane Clarke
    • Quotation--3.1
  • Logan, Joseph D.
    • Contract for sale of land--5.9
  • Lomax, John Taylor
    • Report to R.C. Ambler of his standing in the winter examinations--3.1
  • Lorillard, George
    • Certificate to cancel a mortgage--3.1
  • Mabbot, Thomas Olive
    • New Light on Poe--6.2
  • MacKenzie, Jane
    • Inscription accompanying an award of merit--6.1
    • To the Memory of Edgar Allan Poe--6.1
  • Markham, Edwin
    • Our Israfel; in Memory of Poe--6.1
  • Matthews, Brander
    • Poe's Cosmopolitan Fame--6.3
  • McElrath, Thomas
    • Memorandum of agreement--6.1
  • Minor, Benjamin Blake
    • Who Wrote 'The Raven'? Poe or Hirst--6.1
  • Moldenhauer, Joseph J.
    • A Descriptive Catalogue of Edgar Allan Poe Manuscripts--7.4
    • Edgar Allan Poe Manuscripts from the Koester Collection at the University of Texas--7.5
  • Nobel, William
    • A Terror to Some Lawyers or a Light to the People.--6.1
  • Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke
    • “Ah! Woman still must veil the shame...”--6.1
  • Pabodic, William J.
    • The River of Knowledge--6.1
  • Phillips, Mary E.
    • Comments on Israfel--4.7
  • Poe, David
    • “Petition by citizens...”--6.4
  • Poe, George
    • Abstract of title--6.1
  • Pumfrey & Fitzwhylsonn (firm)
    • Daybook--Oversize bound volume at end of collection
  • Robinson, John
    • Statement certifying a transcript--6.1
  • Simpson, Edmund
    • A prose address spoken by Mr. Simpson--6.1
  • Slaughter, Martha
    • Document concerning the estate of George Slaughter--6.1
  • Steadman, Edmund Clarence
    • Introduction to the Literary Criticism of Poe--6.5
  • Sweeny, M.B.
    • Conveyance of property--6.1
  • Symons, Arthur
    • On the Misconception of Poe--6.6
  • Tabb, John Banister
    • Fordham Cottage--6.1
    • Poe--6.1
  • Thomas, George
    • Trustee report concerning sale of property--6.7
  • Thomson, Charles West
    • "How poor is he who lives for time alone..."--6.1
  • Trowbridge, John Townsend
    • Statement endorsing the preservation of Poe's Fordham Cottage--6.1
  • Trumbull, Sarah Heywood
    • Recollections of a Poet--6.1
  • Valentine, Edward
    • Map of a section of Richmond, Virginia--6.1
  • Waterman, Nixon
    • Edgar Allan Poe--6.1
  • Welch, Carol Elizabeth
    • Letters from the Whitty Collection--8.1
  • Whitman, Sarah Helen Power
    • The list of articles contained in Sarah Whitman's Poeana collection--6.1
    • "The tender lustre of thine eyes..."--6.1
  • Whitman, Walt
    • Edgar Poe's Significance--6.8
  • Whitty, James H.
    • Edgar Allan Poe Census--6.9
    • Notes and fragments--6.10
    • Untitled article to accompany reproductions of portraits--oversize folder 4
  • Woodberry, George Edward
    • E.A.P.; On the Fly-leaf of Whitty's Poe--6.1
    • Memoir--7.1

 Edgar A. Poe Collection--List of Legal Documents 

The following items are located in Box 2, Folder 40.

  • Memoranda of Agreement with John Bisco re
    • purchase of The Broadway Journal, 24 Oct. 1845
    • editorship of The Broadway Journal, 21 Feb. 1845
  • Promissory note to
    • Albright, John W., 1 Dec. 1841
    • Bisco, John, 24 Oct. 1845
    • Harnden & Co., 18 Nov. 1846
  • Receipt for an advance by G.P. Putnam on proceeds from publication of Eureka, 23 May 1848

 Edgar A. Poe Collection--List of Signatures 

The following items are located in Box 11, Folder 4.

  • Booth, Junius Brutus
  • Boston Recorder
  • Daniel Appleton & Co (firm)
  • Dixon, John
  • English, Thomas Dunn
  • Fitzwhylsonn, William H.
  • Forward, Walter
  • Francis, John Wakefield
  • Gainer, Edmund Pendleton
  • Hale, Benjamin
  • Jefferson, Joseph
  • Jefferson, [Thomas?]
  • Kent, James
  • Lawson, James
  • Leslie, Thomas Jefferson
  • McClurg, James
  • MacKenzie, John H.
  • Mason, Charles
  • Moore, Richard Channing
  • Morris, George Pope
  • Pike, Albert
  • Poe, David
  • Poitiaux, M.B.
  • Post, Isreal
  • Prince, William
  • Putnam, George Palmer
  • Richardson, E. C., Mrs.
  • Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
  • Sargent, Epes
  • Scott, Winfield
  • Southern Religious Telegraph
  • Sully, Thomas
  • Thomas, Calvin F.S.
  • Thompson, John Reuben
  • Tyler, Robert
  • Upshur, Abel Parker
  • Washington, Bushrod
  • Whitt, Thomas Willis
  • Whitman, Sarah Helen Power
  • William, Nathaniel Parker

 Edgar A. Poe Collection--Location List of Moldenhauer Catalog Items 

This listing provides the box and folder location of items referred to by the numbers assigned in Joseph J. Moldenhauer's A Descriptive Catalog of Edgar Allan Poe Manuscripts in the Humanities Research Center Library, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973).

  • M1 -- 1.10
  • M2 -- Oversize box (Herring, M.E.)
  • M3 -- 1.5
  • M4 -- 1.13
  • M5 -- 1.14
  • M6 -- 1.12
  • M7 -- Oversize box
  • M8 -- 1.4
  • M9 -- 1.3
  • M10 -- 1.7
  • M11 -- 1.7
  • M12 -- 1.7
  • M13 -- 1.7
  • M14 -- 1.11
  • M15 -- 1.11
  • M16 -- 1.2
  • M17 -- 1.1
  • M18 -- 1.8
  • M19 -- 1.9
  • M20 -- 1.6
  • M21 -- 1.7
  • M22 -- 1.7
  • M23 -- 1.7
  • M24 -- 1.7
  • M25 -- 1.7
  • M26 -- 2.2
  • M27 -- 2.19
  • M28 -- 1.47
  • M29 -- 2.20
  • M30 -- 2.16
  • M31 -- 2.26
  • M32 -- 1.21
  • M33 -- 1.16
  • M34 -- 1.37
  • M35 -- 1.44
  • M36 -- 2.27
  • M37 -- 2.21
  • M38 -- 2.35
  • M39 -- 2.17
  • M40 -- 1.26
  • M41 -- 2.30
  • M42 -- 2.42
  • M43 -- 1.33
  • M44 -- 2.31
  • M45 -- 2.1
  • M46 -- 2.3
  • M47 -- 1.22
  • M48 -- 2.32
  • M49 -- 2.15
  • M50 -- 2.33
  • M51 -- 1.40
  • M52 -- 1.41
  • M53 -- 1.39
  • M54 -- 2.10
  • M55 -- 1.20
  • M56 -- 2.12
  • M57 -- 2.11
  • M58 -- 1.23
  • M59 -- 2.18
  • M60 -- 1.35
  • M61 -- 1.19
  • M62 -- 1.31
  • M63 -- 1.42
  • M64 -- 2.34
  • M65 -- 1.45
  • M66 -- 1.46
  • M67 -- 1.36
  • M68 -- 2.22
  • M69 -- 1.38
  • M70 -- 2.4
  • M71 -- 1.24
  • M72 -- 1.27
  • M73 -- 2.14
  • M74 -- 1.15
  • M75 -- 1.17
  • M76 -- 1.28
  • M77 -- PS 2605A11901b c. 2
  • M78 -- 1.29
  • M79 -- 2.13
  • M80 -- 2.8
  • M81 -- 1.18
  • M82 -- 2.29
  • M83 -- 2.9
  • M84 -- 2.37
  • M85 -- 1.25
  • M86 -- 2.36
  • M87 -- 2.5
  • M88 -- 2.23
  • M89 -- 1.34
  • M90 -- 2.24
  • M91 -- 2.25
  • M92 -- 2.6
  • M93 -- 2.7
  • M94-M100 -- 2.40