Last Sunday, the members of the Poe Museum were invited to a special Poe-themed tour of Richmond's Shockoe Hill Cemetery led by Jeffry Burden, President of the Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery. In the above photo, some of the guests are visiting the grave of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. In the below photo, Jeffry Burden shows members Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew's monument. (Notice the guest sporting a new Poe Museum tote bag.)
In addition to the graves of Poe's first love Jane Stanard and his foster father John Allan, Burden showed the group the lesser known graves of other ...
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Poe’s Last Love Remembered
In one of the last letters he would ever write, Edgar Poe told his aunt, Maria Clemm, “I think [Elmira] loves me more devotedly than any one I ever knew & I cannot help loving her in return.” In the same note, he spoke of his desire to marry Elmira, the woman to whom he had been engaged twenty two years earlier and who had inspired a number of his poems written during those two decades.
“Elmira” was Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, one of the people who had the greatest influence on Poe’s life and work. When their first engagement was broken by her father, the eighteen-year-old Poe wrote ...
Poe Museum Summer 2012 Newsletter
Here is the latest issue of the Poe Museum's newsletter featuring updates on the Museum's fall events. Summer2012newsletter5 ...
A Visit to Poe’s Cottage
A guest at the modest cottage in which Poe lived during his final three years provided this description of meeting the poet in his home: "I well remember the pretty little house, a tiny white cottage, set up above the road, surrounded by tall shrubs, trees, and emerald grass. It was a modest abode, but tasteful, and so scrupulously clean and well ordered that at once on entering it one felt that it was no ordinary home...The door leading into the small “entry” to the house was generally open. Beside the narrow staircase leading to the upper rooms stood a large tube-rose plant, which sent its ...