(Rare Books & Manuscripts) Edgar Allen Poe biographer Mary Elizabeth Phillips wrote 65 letters to Robert Kegerries, an actor who adapted and performed Poe’s The Tale Tell Heart on stage over one hundred times. These letters reflect Phillip’s research process, including her trips to New York and Philadelphia, and to Poe’s ancestral home in Scotland. Kegerries served as a reader and researcher and loaned Phillips items in his Poe collection. Phillips did much of her work in the Boston Public Library, and in 1926 published Edgar Allan Poe, the Man, opens a new window
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