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[Text: John Ward Ostrom, "Revised Check List of the Correspondence of Edgar Allan Poe," Studies in the American Renaissance (edited by Joel Myerson), 1981, pp. 169-255. This information is reprinted here with permission of the copyright holder. It has been reformatted for HTML and updated where additional information is known.]
 

Revised Check List of
the Correspondence of Edgar Allan Poe
(Index to Correspondents and Owners, K - Z)

    These items are arranged alphabetically by the last name of Poe's correspondent or by the name of the owner of the item. Within each name, the items are listed by checklist number, essentially chronologically. A few letters are sent to undetermined addressees. These letters are listed under "Unidentified Correspondent."

    Scroll down, or select letter: A . B . C . D . E . F . G . H . I . J . K . L . M . N . O . P . Q . R . S . T . U . V . W . X . Y . Z

[Previous: A - J]

~~~ K ~~~

Keeler, Oscar T. (correspondent): 372a, 382a

Keese, John (correspondent): 539-540, 544, 627

Kennedy, John P. (correspondent): 73-78, 83, 101, 103, 114, 118, 120, 135, 147, 264, 294, 464a, 576, 593

Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline (correspondent): 688b

Koester, William H., Collection (owner): (see Humanities Research Center Library)
 
 

~~~ L ~~~

Landor, William (correspondent): 306-308

Langley, J. and H. G. (correspondents): 382

Lea, Isaac (correspondent): 28-29

Lea and Blanchard (correspondents): 206-207, 211-212, 219-220, 318, 321

Leighton, R., Jr. (correspondent): 608, 610

Lester, C. Edwards (correspondent): 610a

Lewis Mrs. Sarah A. (corresponent): 689-691, 714, 760-761, 790-791, 807, 809, 825, 827, 829

Library of Congress (owner, DLC): 15, 209a, 588, 589b, 663

Lieber, Francis (correspondent): 151, 153

Lilly Library (Josiah K. Lilly Library, Indiana University) (owner, InU-L): 154, 368, 415, 589a, 612, 701, 712, 719-720, 723, 727, 733, 742, 745-746, 753, 757-758, 769, 778, 781b

Lippard, George (correspondent): 465-466, 814

Lisle, John (correspondent): (see Lyle, John)

Literary Societies of Dickinson College (correspondent): (see Dickinson College Literary Societies)

Literary Societies of Jefferson College (correspondent): (see Jefferson College Literary Societies)

Literary Societies of Vermont University (correspondent): (see Vermont University Literary Societies)

Littell, Eliakim (correspondent): 641-642

Located MSS in print: [302 items] 3, 4, 7-8, 12-13, 16-17, 20-21, 27-29, 34-35, 37-38, 40, 42, 46, 48, 50, 53, 56, 58-59, 61, 63-66, 68-69, 71-74, 76, 78, 80, 84, 86, 88, 91, 93, 97, 101, 110, 112-114, 117, 119, 125-126, 133, 136, 138-139, 143-144, 146, 146a, 147, 149, 150a, 153a, 154, 156, 158, 160, 164, 176a, 195, 198, 203, 209a, 216, 222-223, 227, 233, 233b, 237, 240, 242, 245, 247-248, 253, 256-257, 260, 263-264, 265b, 267-268, 276a, 281-282, 289, 293-296, 298, 304, 308, 311, 317-318, 325, 329-330, 332a, 342, 343a, 345, 348, 356, 361, 365, 367-369, 376-378, 382, 386,388, 391, 394, 398-399, 407-408, 412, 415, 418, 419a, 421, 424-425, 427, 431a, 432, 442-443, 447a, 450, 453a, 457, 462-463, 464a, 468, 473, 476-477, 479b, 481-482, 483a, 484-485, 490-491, 493, 496, 503-505, 513-514, 517, 520-521, 524, 527a, 529, 531, 534-535, 537, 540, 544, 544b, 545, 553-554, 558, 560, 563, 565, 568, 574-576, 580, 583, 585-590, 603, 605, 607, 609, 610a, 610b, 611-612, 621-622, 622b, 626, 628, 628a, 629, 636, 638, 640, 643, 646, 649, 654, 660, 662-665, 667, 670-672, 677, 679, 680a, 687, 688a, 691, 693, 694, 696-697, 700-701, 703, 705, 708, 710-711, 713-714, 718-720, 723, 725a, 727-729, 731, 733, 742, 745-747, 751, 753, 754a, 757-758, 761, 764, 769, 770a, 772-774, 778a, 779, 791-792, 796, 799, 802-803, 805-806, 809, 815, 817, 821-822, 826-827, 827a
[Some items have been added to this collection which were not available to Ostrom: 107a, 178a, 242a, 372b, 382a, 466a, 719b, 772a, 781b, 822a]

Located Poe MSS not in print: 567a, 610e [These items were not in print as of 1981. Both letters are included in this collection.]

Locke, Mrs. Jane E. (correspondent): 675, 677-678, 707-708, 719a, 728, 762, 784

London Gentleman, A. (correspondent): 610c-610d

Longfellow Henry W. (correspondent): 281, 284, 295

Lowell, James R. (correspondent): 398, 400, 405-408, 412, 426-427, 431, 433, 436, 443, 450, 454, 457, 461, 461a, 470, 476, 480-481, 489, 490, 493, 498, 504, 511

Loud, Mrs. M. St. Leon (correspondent): 827a

Lyle, John (correspondent): 3-4

Lynch, Anne C. (correspondent): 544d, 546-547, 551a
 
 

~~~ M ~~~

McCabe, John C. (correspondent): 124-125

McCormick Collection (owner): (see Princeton University Library)

McJilton, John N. (correspondent): 317, 319, 357, 361

McKenzie (correspondent): (see Mackenzie)

McNair, W. W. (correspondent): 390, 395

McWhirter, J. H. (owner): 815, 817

Mackenzie, John (correspondent): 18-19

Mackenzie, Thomas (correspondent): 424a, 431a

Mackenzie, William (correspondent): 432

Magruder, Allan B. (correspondent): 167-168

Marshall, Charles H. (correspondent): 710

Martin, H. Bradley, Collection (owner): 72, 147, 164, 257, 263, 554, 621, 639  [on loan at NNPM] [The entire H. Bradley Martin Collection was sold at auction by Sotheby's in January 1990.]

Mathews, Cornelius (correspondent): 473

Maubey, Jerome A. (correspondent): 624, 629

Maupin, Socrates (correspondent): 254

Maury, Mathew F. (correspondent): 370

Miller, Dr. James H. (correspondent): 99-100

Minor, Benjamin B. (correspondent): 525, 561a

Minor, Lucian (correspondent): 107, 117, 126, 247

Mitchell, Dr. John K. (correspondent): 230-231

Morgan Library (Pierpont Morgan Library) (owner, NNPM): 268, 311, 369, 521, 551a, 587, 672, 700, 772, 799, 822

Morris, John B. (correspondent): 453a, 589b

Mosher, Edward (correspondent): (see Poe, Edward Mosher)

Munroe, Isaac (correspondent): 464

Myers, John C. (correspondent): 460a, 468
 
 

~~~ N ~~~

Neal, John (correspondent): 44, 47, 52-53, 98, 237, 238

Neal, Mary (correspondent): 623

Neville, Maurice F., Collection (owner): 479b

New Poe MS Letters: 479b, 567a, 610e  [These items were new when this checklist was published in 1981.]

New York Public Library (owner, NN): 38, 93, 222, 227, 267, 298, 388, 421, 498, 544e, 545, 565, 583, 599, 606-607, 617, 628, 630, 643, 654-655, 657, 660, 662, 664, 668, 671, 674, 686, 695, 702, 717, 774-775, 779, 803

New York Society Library (owner, NNS): 544b

New York State Library (owner, N): 659 [forgery]

New York University (Fales Library) (owner): 719b, 822a

Norris, J. S. (correspondent): 172-173

Nourse Mr. (correspondent): 159a, 159b
 
 

~~~ O ~~~

Osborn Laughton (correspondent): 559-561, 572, 578, 582

Osborne, Mrs. Mary (correspondent): 719

Osgood, Mrs. Frances S. (correspondent): 579-580

O'Sullivan, J. L. (correspondent): 181

Otis, James F. (correspondent): 149a-149b
 
 

~~~ P ~~~

Pabodie, William J. (correspondent): 750

Patterson, E. H. N. (correspondent): 754, 786-787, 794, 797-798, 815, 817, 819

Patterson S. D. (correspondent): 800-801

Paulding James K. (correspondent): 127-128, 147a, 148a, 176a, 301

Peabody Institute Library (Kennedy Papers) (now in George Peabody Department, Johns Hopkins University) (owner, MdBP): 73, 76, 78, 101, 114, 120, 264, 294, 576  [When this checklist was published in 1981, the Peabody was being run by the Enoch Pratt Free Library.]

Percival, Charles G. (correspondent): 598, 605

Philadelphia Public Ledger (correspondent): (see Public Ledger [Philadelphia] )

Poe, Edgar Allan, in England: 1

Poe Edward Mosher (correspondent):33

Poe George, Jr. (correspondent): 112, 121, 191-192, 585a, 586

Poe Genealogy: 192

Poe, Neilson (correspondent): 552-553

Poe, Robert (correspondent): 244

Poe Rosalie (correspondent): 441

Poe, Mrs. Virginia Clemm (correspondent): 635 (see also 97)

Poe, Washington (correspondent): 129, 131, 246

Poe, William (correspondent): 92-93, 105, 130, 132, 243, 245, 434-435, 439

Poe, William Henry Leonard (correspondent): 2, 62

Poe Foundation (owner, ViRP): (see Poe Museum)

Poe Museum (Richmond, Virginia) (owner, ViRP): 91,  103a, 158, 233, 442, 827a [on loan at Vi]

Porter, William T. (correspondent): 619-620

Postmaster of Phillips, Maine (correspondent): 616

Pratt Library (Enoch Pratt Free Library) (see also Kennedy Papers at Peabody Institute Library) (owner, MdBE): 97, 112, 423, 477, 553, 586, 826

Priestly, John (correspondent): 766

Princeton University Library (owner, NjP):113, 399, 582

Public Ledger (Philadelphia), Publishers of (correspondent): 364a

Putnam, George P. (correspondent): 792-793
 
 

~~~ R ~~~

Ramsay, Arch (correspondent): 658, 665, 682

Reinman, J. F. (correspondent): 676, 680

Richmond (Virginia) Courier and Daily Compiler, (correspondent): 159

Richmond, Mrs. Annie L. (correspondent): 729, 732, 737, 759, 763, 767-768, 772, 776-777, 778a, 780-781, 783, 785, 795, 802

Roberts, George (correspondent): 368

Root, H. S. (correspondent): 804, 806

Root, James E. (correspondent): 622a-622b
 
 

~~~ S ~~~

Sartain, John (correspondent): (see Sartain & Company)

Sartain & Company (correspondent): 772a

Saunders and Otley (correspondent): 160b

Self, William, Collection (owner): 198

Semple, Mr. (correspondent): 159a, 159b

Shea, J. Augustus (correspondent): 521

Shew, Mrs. Marie L. (correspondent): 669-670, 683, 685, 703, 715-716

Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia H. (correspondent): 133, 134, 141, 150, 342, 344, 345

Simms, William G. (correspondent): 650-652

S. D. L. (formerly S. L. D.) (correspondent): 278

Slack Collection (Marietta College) (owner, OMC): 680a

Smith, William P. (correspondent: 589a

Snodgrass J. Evans (correspondent): 198, 208-209, 213, 215-216, 223-225, 228-229, 239-240, 266-267, 272, 275, 310-311, 327, 330, 369

Soden (correspondent): (see Bradbury and Soden)

Sparks, Jared (correspondent): 138

Stoddard, Richard H. (correspondent): 256a, 257, 542

Subscribers to the Stylus (correspondent): 422

Sutherland, Joel B. (correspondent): 462

Swain, Abel, and Simmons (correspondents): 364a

Swedenborgians of Philadelphia (correspondents): 494
 
 

~~~ T ~~~

Talley, Susan A. (correspondent): 740, 749, 821a, 821b, 827c

Taylor, Bayard (correspondent): 713

Tazewell, Littleton W. (correspondent): 154

Thayer, Colonel Sylvanus (correspondent): 64

Thomas, Edward J. (correspondent): 548-549

Thomas, Frederick W. (correspondent): 258, 260, 262, 271, 276, 283, 285-287, 290-292, 298, 303-305, 309, 313-315, 323, 325-326, 331-334, 339, 341, 343, 347-348, 355-356, 358, 362, 364, 365, 372b, 374, 386-388, 391, 397, 399, 409-411, 413, 416, 418, 423-424, 428, 495-496, 499, 510, 514-515, 535-537, 550, 569, 655-656, 748, 773  (See also 778a)

Thompson, John R. (correspondent): 750a, 751, 764-765, 770a, 788-789, 799

Thompson, Mr. (correspondent): 159a, 159b

Thomson, Charles W. (correspondent): 241-242, 280

Ticknor, William D. (correspondent): 663

Tomlin, John (correspondent): 210, 251-253, 259, 270a, 273a, 274, 277, 279, 335, 352-353, 392, 396, 419, 444-447, 448-449

Townsend, John K. (correspondent): 420

Tucker, Beverley (correspondent): 110-111, 115-116, 136

Tuckerman, Henry T. (correspondent): (see Boston Miscellany, Editor of)

Tutt, Mrs. Elizabeth R. (correspondent): 379

Tyler, Robert (correspondent): 429-430
 
 

~~~ U ~~~

Unidentified Correspondents: 107a, 157, 265a, 486, 590, 603, 610d, 610e, 638, 703b, 703b, 778b, 830

United States Military Academy (owner, NWM): 64

University of California at Los Angeles (owner, CLU-C):  (see Clark, William Andrews Library)

University of Michigan (owner, MiU-C): (see Clements, William L. Library)

University of Texas at Austin (owner, TxU-HRCL): (see Humanities Research Center Library)

University of Vermont (correspondent): (see Vermont University Literary Societies)

University of Virginia (owner, ViU-A): (see Alderman Library)

Unlocated Poe MS letters in print (evidenced by copy, cutting, envelope, sales catalogue): [Possibly extant, 90 items] 47, 80, 106-107, 132, 151, 159, 160a, 165a, 165c, 168, 173, 178, 192, 209, 221, 223, 225, 229, 231, 235, 237a, 240, 246, 275, 300, 304 (p. 3), 320, 334, 346, 370a, 379, 396, 420, 460, 463, 464, 466, 471, 487, 502, 512, 525, 526a, 527, 530, 548, 567, 588, 592, 594, 602a, 610b, 610d, 632, 635, 647, 666, 677-678, 680, 683, 688-689, 698, 712, 716, 721, 726, 736-737, 741, 743, 750, 759, 763, 766, 768, 771-772, 777, 781-782, 785-786, 794, 808, 810-811, 813, 818  [additional items: 133a, 450b, 609a, 703b]

Unlocated Poe MS letters not in print (evidenced by internal reference or implication in a letter to or from Poe): [Probably lost or in private hands, 116 items] 5, 10, 19, 23, 25, 32, 44, 47, 51, 62, 81, 94, 99, 102, 115, 122, 127, 131, 140-141, 145, 147a, 149a, 157, 159b, 160a, 161-162, 169, 171, 174, 179, 182, 184, 187, 189, 193, 196-197, 205, 206, 211, 219, 236, 244, 249, 251, 265, 269, 276-277, 286, 290-291, 299, 301-302, 313, 331, 341, 343a, 349, 359, 362, 364a, 370a, 374, 384, 395, 402, 405, 409-410, 416-417, 429, 434, 444, 446, 452, 456, 461, 475, 486, 508, 518, 522, 525, 546, 547a, 571, 585a, 601, 614, 619, 627, 629a, 641, 644, 650, 651, 684, 688b-688c, 722b, 732, 735, 740, 756, 795, 800, 814, 816, 818, 823, 830
 
 

~~~ V ~~~

Valentine, Edward (correspondent): 741

Valentine Museum (Richmond) (owner, ViRVaL): 7-8, 12-14, 16-17, 20-21, 26-27, 30, 34-35, 37, 40, 42, 46, 48, 50, 56, 58-59, 61, 63, 66, 68-71, 605

Van Bibber, T E. (correspondent): 451

Van Winkle, Edgar S. (correspondent): 165a-165c

Vermont University Literary Societies (correspondent): 625-626

Virginia State Library (owner, Vi): 3-4, 132, 192, 425, 544d
 
 

~~~ W ~~~

Walker, J. H. (correspondent): 676, 680

Walsh, Robert (correspondent): 23-24

Watterston, George (correspondent): 588

Weiss, Mrs. S. A. T (correspondent): (see Talley, Susan Archer)

Weld Hastings (correspondent): 320

West Charles E. (correspondent): 544a-544c

Whackemwell, Timotheus (correspondent): 316-317

White, Thomas W. (correspondent): 79-80, 82, 84-91, 102, 104, 169-170, 370

Whitman, Mrs. Sarah Helen (correspondent): 720, 722, 723-724, 727, 730-731, 733-736, 738-739, 742, 745-746, 752-753, 769

Wilkins, Leonard M. (correspondent): 452

Williams, Samuel (correspondent): 460a, 468-469, 471-472

Willis, Nathaniel P. (correspondent): 51, 302, 343a, 344a, 350, 479b, 508-509, 601-602, 632a, 661, 666, 689a, 692-693, 698, 782, 818

Wilmer, Lambert (correspondent): 171

Wirt, William (correspondent): 22

Wittenburg College Philosophian Society (correspondent and owner, OSW): 676, 680

Wood, William B. (correspondent): 265a

Wyatt, Professor Thomas (correspondent): 274a, 276a, 417
 
 

~~~ Y ~~~

Yale University Library (owner, CtY): (see Beinecke Library)

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[S:0 - SAR, 1981]