Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Land titles; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Neilson, 1809-1884; Travel;
In this letter dated February 19, 1861 and written from Alexandria, Virginia, Maria Clemm again raises the issue with Neilson Poe of the sale of the land warrant inherited from her late husband. She is anxious to sell it and, having found someone...
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Ridgway, Henry; Slave bills of sale;
Handwritten copy of a bill of sale for Negro slave Edwin sold by Edgar A. Poe, as agent for Maria Clemm, to Henry Ridgway December 10, 1829 and recorded December 29, 1829 by William Gibson, the clerk for Baltimore City. At the top of the document...
Church Home (Baltimore, Md.); Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Neilson, 1809-1884;
In this letter dated September 14, 1863 and written from Baltimore, Maryland, Maria Clemm informs Neilson Poe she is now living in the Church Home on Broadway in Baltimore. Although her stay is being paid for by the ladies of St. Paul's Church, she...
Letters; Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Rice, Sara Sigourney, 1831-1909;
In this letter dated April 4, 1876 and written from Paris, France, Stéphane Mallarmé responds to Sara Sigourney Rice's letter requesting a few lines from Mallarmé to be included in a book entitled Edgar Allan Poe: A Memorial Volume. Rice was...
Letters; Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898; Memorial rites and ceremonies; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Rice, Sara Sigourney, 1831-1909;
In his letter dated January 12, 1876 but actually written in 1877 from Paris, France, the polite but distressed poet Stéphane Mallarmé complains to Sara Sigourney Rice about the errors in his memorial sonnet to Edgar Allan Poe. Apparently, Miss...
In this incomplete letter dated only Sunday evening June 15 and written probably in 1856 from Lowell, Massachusetts, Annie (Nancy Heywood) Richmond complains that it has been too long since she and Muddie (Maria Clemm) have sat and talked. She...
Photograph taken of a bronze-colored plaster bust of Edgar Allan Poe based on the bronze bust of Poe sculpted by George Julian Zolnay around 1898. On the rounded section of the base on the rear of the bust are the letters G J ZOLNAY SC. (SC stands...
Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871; Debt; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Neilson, 1809-1884; Travel; United States. History. War of 1812;
In this letter dated April 5, 1860 and written from Alexandria, Virginia, Maria Clemm thanks Neilson Poe for his help in selling the land warrant she inherited from her late husband, payment for his service in the War of 1812. She also tells...
In his letter dated November 29, 1835 and written from Augusta, Georgia, William Poe, Jr., a cousin, relates some interesting facts about the Georgian branch of the Poe family to Maria Clemm. The letter is testament to the piety of this branch of...
South Holland (Netherlands)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Based on the surveys by Floriszoon van Berckenrode, the South Holland cities of The Hague, Delft and Rotterdam are shown. This is a highly detailed map. The back side contains a text in French describing the area of South Holland: Delfland, Schiel,...
Betrayal; Caricatures and cartoons; Civil War, 1861-1865; Etching; Hicks, Thomas Holliday, 1798-1865; Judas Iscariot; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865;
Etching by Adalbert Volck that portrays Thomas Holliday Hicks, Governor of Maryland from 1858 to 1862, as Judas Iscariot. Hicks had run for office as an antiabolitionist and a supporter of slave-owners, yet kept Maryland from seceding from the...
Drawing; Theater programs; Theyre-Smith, S. (Spenser); Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketches by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of two Spenser Theyre-Smith comedies, Cut off with a Shilling (upper sketch) and A Happy Pair (lower sketch). Both plays are set in a Victorian parlor. In the first play, a young woman...
Burlesques; Drawing; Rhodes, William Barnes, 1772-1826; Theater programs; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of the Thomas (i.e., William) Barnes Rhodes burlesque drama, Bombastes Furioso. In this illustration, the lavishly dressed Distaffina sits in a chair next to a spinning wheel with her arm...
Illustration of books--Germany--16th century; Wood-engraving, German; German--15th century; Satire, German; Folly in art;
Woodcuts known as Stroking the fallow stallion (front, recto of page) and The wise men (back, verso of page) by Albrecht Dürer from the book titled Navis Stultifera (also known as Das Narrenschiff in German and Ship of Fools in English), a book...
Illustration of books--Germany--15th century; Wood-engraving, German--15th century;
Pages with rubrication and a woodcut from the book titled Spiegel des menschlichen Lebens (Mirror of life) written by Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo and printed in Germany in 1479 by Johann Bamler [John Baemler]. Taken from page xxxxi (41), this...
Illustration of books--Italian--17th century; Illustration of books--France--17th century; Etching, Italian--17th century; Monks--Pictorial works;
Etching titled Monaci Silvestrini (Monk of Silvestrini) by Odoardo Fialetti from a book titled Histoire de l'institution des ordres religieux, dispersey par tout le monde (History of the institution of religious orders, dispersed into all the...
Illustration of books--Germany--16th century; Illustration of books--Spain--16th century; Livy; Rome--History; Soldiers--Pictorial works; Wood-engraving, German--16th century; Wood-engraving, Spanish--16th century;
Woodcut of Decada I (decade 1), Libro II (book 2), Dela Fundacion de Roma (Foundation of Rome) from the book titled Las quatorze decadas de Tito Livio, historiador de los romanos (The fourteen decades of Livy, historian of the Romans). Tito Livio...
Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800; Illustration of books--Germany--16th century; Wood-engraving, German--16th century;
Woodcuts of herbs from the book titled Ortus sanitatis : de herbis et plantis, de animalibus et reptilibus, de auibus et volatilibus, de piscibus et natatilibus, de lapidibus et in terre venis nascentibus, de urinis et earum speciebus, tabula...
Church of England--Liturgy--Texts; Engraving, English--England--London--17th century; Illustration of books--England--17th century; Morning prayer (Divine office)--Church of England--Texts;
Page with woodcut ornamental letter and text of morning prayer for the seventh day from a book of rituals of the Anglican Church. Published by Robert Barker in 1639, the page contains Psalm 35, Judica me, Domine, a prayer to be read on the morning...
