BIB_ID
126166
Accession number
MA 624.1
Creator
Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke, 1811-1850.
Display Date
[ca. 1846].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Probably copied by Poe for use in his review of Mrs. Osgood's Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England (in which "Woman's Trust" was printed). Titled "Literary Criticisim," this review appeared in Godey's Lady's Book in March, 1846.
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
Summary
A manuscript fragment of the sketch (62 lines, beginning with "That gentle lip -- to passionate contempt") in the autograph of Edgar Allan Poe.
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