October 3, 2011

October 3: Edgar Allan Poe Discovered Delirious, 1849



He was disheveled and delirious. He had been missing for five days. And the clothes he was wearing were not his own.


Read article here.


Pictured: Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe in 1848. 1904 photograph by C. T. Tatman, taken from an 1848 daguerreotype by W. S. Hartshorn, that has been missing since 1860.

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