R. M. T. Hunter letter to Professor H. Tutwiler [manuscript], 1875 May 20.

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R. M. T. Hunter letter to Professor H. Tutwiler [manuscript], 1875 May 20.

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Hunter discusses his contact with Edgar Allan Poe in Richmond when Poe was editor of the Souther literary messenger. Hunter states that he "frequently volunteered to correct the press when pieces were being published with classical quotations. Poe was the only man on White's staff capable of doing this and when occasionally drinking (the habit was not constant) he was incapacitated for the work. On such occasions I have done the work more than once to prevent a rupture between his employer and himself."

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