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The imp of the perverse
From a July 1842 letter by Edgar Allan Poe to the publishers of the Democratic Review. William Ross Wallace, a friend of Poe’s, was a poet and lawyer. Recently acquired by the University of Virginia, the letter is part of an exhibit on view there this summer in celebration of Poe’s bicentennial.
Gentlemen,
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| SEE ALSO: Alcohol use; Correspondence; Poe, Edgar Allan | |
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