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Preferred Citation

Edgar Allan Poe Research Collection, 1968-1982, Accession #11233, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This research material was given to the Library by J. Lasley Dameron, Department of English, University of Michigan, Memphis, Tennessee, on May 1, 1996.

Scope and Content Information

There are ca. 1460 items, ca. 1967-1982, relating to the scholarship and criticism of Edgar Allan Poe, compiled by J. Lasley Dameron. There is correspondence relating to the study Edgar Allan Poe: A Bibliography of Criticism, 1927-1967 by J. Lasley Dameron and Irby B. Cauthen, Jr. Correspondents include Stephen L. Mooney, Knoxville, Tennessee; Richard P. Benton, Department of English, Trinity College; Koh Kasegawa, Aoyama Gakuin University, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan; John E. Reilly, Department of English, College of the Holy Cross; Hisazumi Tagiri, Tokyo, Japan; Ichigoro Uchida, Kyoritsu Women's Junior College, Tokyo, Japan; and, librarians of various institutions. Reilly is also the author of John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University of Virginia . Other materials include ca. 60 reprints, 1845-1975, of essays, articles, and books of criticism on Poe; three newsletters, 1976-1976, entitled "Edgar Allan Poe Scripts"; and, an electrostatic copy of a 1942 University of Virginia thesis, "A Descriptive Bibliography of Criticism of Edgar Allan Poe, 1827-1941," by Irby Bruce Cauthen. In addition, there are ca. 1200 index cards compiled by John Cook Wyllie as a guide to Poe's critical essays (located in card file drawer #75).