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Edgar
Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849 at the Washington College Hospital in Baltimore. The
events surrounding his death have remained an enigma. The Poe Shadow constructs
"an intriguing chain of theories" (The New York Times) using new
and definitive evidence.
Above
is a compilation of original obituaries and articles about
Poe's death. The New York Herald is the most complete obituary
published, and The Providence Daily Journal, published about one year later,
may be the most insightful. Click on the image above to look more
closely at the montage.
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In the weeks before his
death, Poe asked his aunt Maria Clemm to send him a
letter to Philadelphia addressed to "E. S. T. Grey." This image above is from the Philadelphia
Public Ledger on October 3, 1849 and informs readers
what letters were waiting for pick up. Look closely at the "Gentlemen's List" here and you will find the name
"Grey, E. S. F." -- precisely at the same time a letter from Maria Clemm addressed to Poe under that name
would have arrived at the post office. This was likely the last letter sent to Poe in his lifetime.
The existence of this waiting letter has never before been known, and
this list is reprinted for the first time on this site and in The Poe Shadow, where its implications are
explored and the reasons why Poe used this alias in this final days are finally revealed.
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During the last
weeks of Edgar Allan Poe's life, he had planned to visit
Philadelphia to edit a book of poems by a writer named Maurgerite
St. Leon Loud. Poe died, but Loud ultimately did publish her poetry
book in 1851. Identified for the first time on this site and in
The Poe Shadow, this document, "The Stranger's Doom"
(reproduced at left from 1851 edition) is one of the last poems
in Loud's volume and may be the first poem ever written about
Poe's funeral. What it reveals about Poe's death is uncovered in The
Poe Shadow. |
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