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[1846] 20 APRIL OR BEFORE. PHILADELPHIA. Godey’s for May contains “The Literati of New York City: Some Honest Opinions at Random Respecting Their Autorial Merits, with Occasional Words of Personality.” #edgarallanpoe #WritingCommunity
"Hans Phall" a hoax by EA Poe takes place on April 1.
"It was the first of April. The night, as I said before, was dark; there was not a star to be seen; and a drizzling rain, falling at intervals, rendered us very uncomfortable. But my chief anxiety was concerning the balloon."
1848 28 MARCH Miss Lynch writes Mrs. Whitman in Providence: “Your Raven was much admired in the Home Journal. Gen M. [‘General’ Morris] met me one day in great ecstasies over the exquisite poem or valentine he had just recd for the paper, which I had seen of course before” #poe
[1847] 21 MARCH. The Sunday Dispatch reports: “The Philadelphia Galaxy promises another action growing out of Mr. Poe’s suit against the Mirror, in which several literary ladies will figure” (Moss [1970], pp. 204-05).
[1849] 17 MARCH. BOSTON. The Flag of Our Union for 24 March contains this announcement: “ ‘A Dream within a Dream, a poem, by our regular contributor, EDGAR A. POE, filed for next week.” #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #WritingCommunity
[1845] BEFORE 8 MARCH. The publishers Wiley and Putnam agree to issue a new edition of Poe’s tales in their forthcoming “Library of American Books” (Briggs to Lowell, 8 March). #readerscommunity #WritingCommunity
1847 22 FEB NY. the Superior Court, enters the verdict in Poe’s libel suit in the Judgment Record. The plaintiff has been awarded $225 for damages “and also the sum of One Hundred and One Dollars, and forty-two cents, for his said costs and charges . . . #edgarallanpoe #reader
Poe and Charles Addams would have got on like a house on fire. #charlesaddams #edgarallanpoe #poetrycommunity #laugh #writerscommunity #NEVERMORE