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The article offers information on a significant yet overlooked scrapbook related to Edgar Allan Poe housed in the Edgar Allan Poe Museum. Topics include the scrapbook's compilation by Lucy Dorothea Henry, the cataloging and digitization of its contents featuring handwriting from Poe, Hawthorne, and Dickens, and the discovery of a second scrapbook previously misclassified as a biographical memoir by Susan Archer Weiss.

The article focuses on the prevalence of dueling culture in Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond, exploring how insults often led to deadly feuds, and how the practice persisted despite being illegal. Topics include the historical context of dueling in the South, its influence on Poe's works, and instances of duels involving prominent figures in Richmond, providing insights into the societal norms and conflicts of the time.

The article presents information related to Edgar Allan Poe Museum's centennial celebration held on April 28, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.

This article is in response to Steven E. Kemper's "Poe, Twain, and Limburger Cheese," which argues that Mark Twain's "The Invalid's Story" spoofs Poe's "A Descent into the Maelström" by parodying its style and technique. After suggesting that Kemper's argument has a few problems, this article posits that it is rather Poe's "The Oblong Box" and "The Purloined Letter" that Mark Twain uses to spoof Poe by citing definite connections between the works.

The article offers information on the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia. It further discusses comics scholar M. Thomas Inge gave the museum several comic book adaptions of Poe's works; gift of Roger Griswold consisted of Edgar Allan Poe letters inherited from their grandfather; and in honor of the Poe Museum's centennial in 2022, collector Susan Jaffe Tane decided to donate part of her world-renowned Poe collection.

The article presents the discussion on Virginia military and political figures beginning for filling the city's parks, medians, and intersections. Topics include admiring earnestly and enjoying thoroughly the music and beauty of Poe's poems; and version being carved and discarded before all parties settling on the final polished granite one.

The article presents the discussion on the gift from Edgar Allan Poe to his fiancée Elmira Shelton including a gold engagement ring and a dress coat for his planned wedding and also a set of drinking glasses with a decanter.

The article focuses on the American writer Edgar Allan Poe's letters and manuscripts offer viewers the rare opportunity to witness the creation of his works, following his pen's course across the page.

The article discusses work and life of Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer and poet, known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the U.S. and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to genre of science fiction.

The article discusses Russell B. Devine, secretary of the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia wrote the Reverend Edmund Ruffin Jones of Williamsburg, Virginia to inquire about an Edgar Allan Poe letter in his possession. It mentions that an important letter from Edgar Allan Poe to his foster uncle Edward Valentine would become one of the most important documents in the museum's collection.

The article offers brief profile of Edgar Allan Poe, writer. It offers information on the University of Virginia’s professor of isotope and organic chemistry, Stephen Macko. Macko is focused on examining the amounts of isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur isotopes in hair to find the signatures of certain foods. It mentions that Macko burns the hair samples at 1,000 degrees Celsius to convert it to a gas.

The article focuses on Thomas Willis White, owner of "Southern Literary Messenger" periodical in Richmond, Virginia and was credited with helping American poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe change the course of his career from poetry to journalism. Topics include White's personal life, his relationship with Poe, and the role of his periodical in the success of Poe. Information about the portrait of White displayed at the Poe Museum is offered.

The article focuses on American writer Edgar Allan Poe's literary executor,biographer, and enemy Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Topics discussed are collection and conservation of portraits painted by Charles Loring Elliott, crowd funding efforts for the Poe's Museum's collection which includes conservation of letters and poems written by Griswold to his wife, and presents engraved portrait of Griswold.

The article focuses on the life and experiences of American writer Edgar Allan Poe in Richmond, Virginia. Details about the structures associated with Poe's contemporaries which receive long-overdue attention are mentioned, including the J. W. Fergusson House, the Lost Lenore House, and Talavera house.

The article presents notes on topics related to Edgar Allan Poe including the discovery of unknown manuscript of Poe at Poe Museum, story writing competition, and reprint of Poe's "Gold-Bug."