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OSGOOD, MRS. FRANCES SARGENT

OTIS, JAMES FREDERICK

PABODIE, WILLIAM JEWETT

PASSMORE, JOSEPH CLARKSON

PATTERSON, EDWIN HOWARD NORTON

PAULDING, JAMES KIRKE

PERCIVAL, CHARLES G.

PLEASANTS, JAMES, JR.

POE, GEORGE, JR.

POE, GEORGE WASHINGTON

POE, NEILSON

POE, MRS. VIRGINIA CLEMM

POE, WASHINGTON

POE, WILLIAM

PRIESTLEY, JOHN

PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER

RAMSAY, ARCH

REINMAN, J. F.

RICHMOND, MRS. ANNIE LOCKE

ROBERTS, GEORGE

ROOT, H. S.

ROOT, JAMES E.

S. E.

SARGENT, EPES

SARTAIN, JOHN

SHEA, JOHN AUGUSTUS

SHEW, MRS. MARIE LOUISE

SIGOURNEY, MRS. LYDIA HUNTLEY

SIMMS, WILLIAM GILMORE

SMITH, WILLIAM P.

SNODGRASS, JOSEPH EVANS

SPARKS, JARED

STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY

SUTHERLAND, JOEL BARLOW

SUSAN A. TALLEY

TAYLOR, BAYARD

TAZEWELL, LITTLETON WALLER

THAYER, COLONEL SYLVANUS

THOMAS, EDWARD J.

THOMAS, FREDERICK WILLIAM

THOMPSON, JOHN REUBEN

THOMSON, CHARLES WEST

TICKNOR, WILLIAM D.

TOMLIN, JOHN

TOWNSEND, JOHN KIRK

TUCKER, JUDGE NATHANIEL BEVERLEY

TUCKERMAN, HENRY THEODORE

TUTT, MRS. ELIZABETH REBECCA

TYLER, ROBERT

TYLER, W. B.

UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENTS

VALENTINE, EDWARD

VAN WINKLE, EDGAR SIMEON

WALLACE, HORACE BINNEY

WALKER, J. H.

WATTERSTON, GEORGE

WELD, HORATIO HASTINGS

WEST, CHARLES EDWIN

WHACKEMWELL, TIMOTHEUS

WHITE, THOMAS WILLIS

WHITMAN, MRS. SARAH HELEN

WILKINS, LEONARD M.

WILLIAMS, SAMUEL

WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER

WIRT, WILLIAM

WOOD, WILLIAM BURKE

WYATT, THOMAS

ALLAN, JOHN

Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — May 25, 1826

University. May 1826

Dear Sir,

I this morning received the clothes you sent me, viz an (sic) uniform coat, six yards of striped cloth for pantaloons & four pair of socks — The coat is a beautiful one & fits me exactly — I thought it best not to write ‘till I received the clothes — or I should have written before this — You have heard no doubt of the disturbances in College — Soon after you left here the Grand Jury met and put the Students in a terrible fright — so much so that the lectures were unattended — and those whose names were upon the Sheriff’s list — travelled off into the woods & mountains — taking their beds & provisions along with them — there were about 50 on the list — so you may suppose the College was very well thinn‘d — this was the first day of the fright — the second day, “A proclamation” was issued by the faculty forbidding “any student under pain of a major punishment to leave his dormitory between the hours of 8 & 10 A M — (at which time the Sheriffs would be about) or in any way to resist the lawful authority of the Sheriffs” — This order however was very little attended to — as the fear of the Faculty could not counterbalance that of the Grand Jury — most of the “indicted” ran off a second time into the woods and upon an examination the next morning by the Faculty — Some were reprimanded — some suspended — and one expelled — James Albert Clarke from Manchester (I went to school with him at Burke’s) was suspended for two months, Armstead Carter from this neighbourhood, for the remainder of the session — And Thomas Barclay for ever — There have >>been<< several fights since you were here — One between Turner Dixon, and Blow from Norfolk excited more interest than any I have seen — for a common fight is so trifling an occurrence that no notice is taken of it — Blow got much the advantage in the scuffle — but Dixon posted him in very indecent terms — upon which the whole Norfolk party rose in arms — & nothing was talked off for a week, but Dixon’s charge, & Blow’s explanation — every pillar in the University was white with scratched paper — Dixon made a physical attack upon Arthur Smith one of Blow’s Norfolk friends — and a “very fine fellow” — he struck him with a large stone on one side of his head — whereupon Smith drew a pistol (which are all the fashion here) and had it not miss d’ (sic) fire, would have put an end to the controversy — but so it was — it did miss fire — and the matter