Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to the Sarah Helen Whitman Papers, 1824-1946.

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Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to the Sarah Helen Whitman Papers, 1824-1946.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122623333

Photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, etc. Also included are copy of Whitman's will and miscellaneous items relating to Edgar Poe.

40 items.

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6793723

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Whitman, Sarah Helen Power, 1803-1878

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Sarah Helen Power Whitman (January 19, 1803 – June 27, 1878) was an American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe. Whitman was born in Providence, Rhode Island on January 19, 1803, exactly six years before Poe's birth. She was the daughter of Nicholas Power. In 1828, she married the poet and writer John Winslow Whitman. John had been co-editor of the Boston Spectator and Ladies' Album, which allowed Sarah to publish some of her poetry usin...

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet, and critic. 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 contr...

Dailey, Maude Chace.

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Chace, Louise.

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Dailey, Charlotte Field, d.1914.

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