The life of Edgar Allan Poe .. . Poe could have given Dr. Griswolduscandalous anecdote a moments credence. Yours, etc., *. S. H. Whitman/* Apropos of Mr. Griswolds professed friendshipfor Poe, which he endeavors to demonstrate incopies of a correspondence which I cannot refrainfrom thinking was extensively doctored by thedoctor, to suit his purpose, we are able to present,perhaps not inappropriately in this place, an ex-tract from an autograph letter of Dr. Griswold,written to Mrs. Whitman in 1849. The object of this was evidently to cool friendship for Mrs. Clemm, thus pre-ventin
The life of Edgar Allan Poe .. . Poe could have given Dr. Griswolduscandalous anecdote a moments credence. Yours, etc., *. S. H. Whitman/* Apropos of Mr. Griswolds professed friendshipfor Poe, which he endeavors to demonstrate incopies of a correspondence which I cannot refrainfrom thinking was extensively doctored by thedoctor, to suit his purpose, we are able to present,perhaps not inappropriately in this place, an ex-tract from an autograph letter of Dr. Griswold,written to Mrs. Whitman in 1849. The object of this was evidently to cool friendship for Mrs. Clemm, thus pre-venting their further intimacy. This was desir-able to Dr. Griswold for evident reasons. New York, December 17, dear Mrs. Whitman. I have been two or three weeks in Philadelphia, attendingto the remains which a recent fire left of my library and fur-niture, and so did not receive 3our interesting letter in regardto our departed acquaintance until to-day. I wrote, as yousuppose the notice of Poe in The Tribune,but very hastily,.
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