A Guide to the Greer-Poe Collection
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 3565-b
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Greer-Poe Collection, Accession #3565-b, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
The material, which is part of a larger gift including books on Poe held by the Rare Books Department, was willed by Miss Greer to the Alderman Library in memory of Dr. James Southall Wilson, the Poe scholar with whom she stuided during her student days at the University of Virginia.
Scope and Content Information
The Greer-Poe collection consists of Miss Louise Greer's essays on Poe's life and work, her notes on biographies of Poe and his literary criticism, and correspondence addressed to her primarily from libraries in response to her requests for material concerning Poe, as well as postcards and photographs relating to Poe. Miss Greer, a Browning scholar whose manuscript Browning and America is also held by this department, compiled this material for use in her graduate instruction at East Carolina College.
Arrangement
The collection is filed by subjet.
Contents List
10 l.