Edgar Allan Poe's handwriting

[HDoug]

I was tipped off to this example of Poe's handwriting from the blog, Letters of Note. This is a carefully written out copy of "The Raven" and the only autograph copy in existence.

 

http://homepage.mac.com/hdougmatsuoka/images/pen/091204Poe/raven.jpg

 

You can click on the photo for a really big image from the University of Virgina.

 

It's also interesting to compare this with a a funny letter he wrote apologizing about his drunken behavior. See this entry at Letters of Note which has a link to a really big image of the letter.

 

Doug

[Biber]

Love the ink! Any guesses as to what might match it?

 

B

[tfwall]

Love the ink! Any guesses as to what might match it?

 

My bottle of Parker Quink comes out a greyish-black like that.

[TrevorML]

thanks for the link... found a fantastic example of good ol' George's (as in Washington) writing in the archive there...

 

[AD356]

Thanks for sharing

[vidalia11]

Fantastic! Thanks.

 

Karen