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Poe Letter Sells for $125,000 at RR Auction 
October 12, 2020
Boston — A rare handwritten letter by Edgar Allan Poe sold for $125,125, according to Boston-based RR Auction.
The Huntington Acquires Papers of F. Marion Crawford, Popular 19th-Century American Novelist
February 8, 2019
The Collection of Proust's Great-Niece, Marie-Claude Mante, at Sotheby's Paris
May 2, 2018
Octavia E. Butler's Archive on View for First Time
February 17, 2017
Fanny Mendelssohn Score Among “Treasures from the Vault” at the Morgan
September 9, 2014
New York, NY, September 9, 2014—The Morgan is home to some of the world's greatest collections of medieval manuscripts, printed books and bindings, literary manuscripts, private letters and cor
Poe's Portraits & Scrolls
October 21, 2013
I had the good fortune to see Terror of the Soul, the new Edgar Allan Poe exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum, las
Novelist, Poet, and Essayist Julia Alvarez’s Archive Acquired by Ransom Center
August 28, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of acclaimed novelist, poet and essayist Julia Alvar
Largest and Most Important Faulkner Archive at Sotheby’s
March 28, 2013
28 March 2013 — Sotheby’s is pleased to offer the largest and most important group of William Faulkner material ever to appear at auction on 11 June 2013.
The Morgan’s “Treasures from the Vault” Opens
January 15, 2013
New York, NY, January 14, 2013—The Morgan Library & Museum is home to some of the world’s greatest collections of medieval manuscri
Poe's Engagement Ring For Sale
December 12, 2012
It's no secret that Edgar Allan Poe had a murky romantic life. Anyone who has taken American Lit 101 knows that he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm.