Poe's Quarrel with Boston Writers

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Autographed Letter
September 28, 1850

In this letter, written about a year after Poe's death, Longfellow defends himself from a specific charge of plagiarism involving Poe's poem "The Haunted Palace." [The full text of this fading letter is reproduced nearby]

Boston Public Library, Rare Books & Manuscripts