¹ James A. Harrison, Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (New York, 1902), v, p. 42. Italics reproduced from text.

² Broadway Journal, 8 March 1845.

³ Weekly Mirror, 25 January 1845, pp. 250–251.

⁴ This letter is published with the express permission of Miss Anne Longfellow Thorp, who represents the Longfellow heirs, and of the present owners of the manuscript, the Trustees of the Pennington School, represented by Dr. Charles Smythe, the Headmaster of the Pennington School. The letter may not be re-reproduced in any form without such written permission. Especial gratitude must be expressed to Mrs. Joan Valentine, Librarian of the Pennington School, and to Professor Howard Cressman, custodian of the Francis Harvey Green Collection. The letter is written in Longfellow's hand on three sheets of paper 9“X7½”. The sheets have been folded three times and the address is on the reverse side of the third sheet.

⁵ The reference is to a letter signed “Outis” (Gk. “nobody”), which was published in The Weekly Mirror, 8 March 1845, pp. 346–347.

⁶ Longfellow's second wife, Frances Appleton, to whom he was married in 1843.

⁷ Presumably Mrs. Caroline H. Butler who lived in Philadelphia at this time and who was a frequent contributor to Graham's Magazine and to other such periodicals in the mid-nineteenth century.

⁸ William Peter, 1788–1853.

⁹ Arthur Hobson Quinn, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (New York, 1941), p. 455.