It was night in the lonesome October of my most immemorial year…
J. Snodgrass and N. Poe, cousin, found him in Baltimore. They were the poet’s enemies, and killed him. The note from J. Walker (like Snodgrass, also of the libelous Baltimore Sun) to Snodgrass was later altered by Snodgrass to “beastly intoxication.” Correspondence between Snodgrass and Poe, abruptly ended years earlier, had Poe confiding he hated N. Poe. Poe was not visiting Snodgrass, but he miraculously ended up near his house in distress and soon N. Poe miraculously showed up. Why biographers do not focus on this is unbelievable. They typically report “Poe was found in Baltimore by friends.” They were not friends. And they obviously only seemed to “find” him. Horace Greeley’s NY Tribune reported Poe’s death (no autopsy) within hours in the lurid obit smear signed “Ludwig” (Griswold). The Sun covered up the facts of the death, as well. Greeley was a strange, extremely compromised, man who later ran for president against Grant (Greeley won Maryland). Greeley was closely associated with Poe’s literary rivals, the transcendentalists. Thick ignorance hides the death of America’s genius even now.
Scarriet Editors
Poe 1/19/1809 — 10/7/1849