The Museum Collection

The Edgar Allan Poe Museum Collection

The Poe Museum offers thousands of artifacts of Poe's life and legacy many of which are rarely displayed.

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  "Nevermore" by Fred O. Seibel

  Fred O. Seibel (1886-1968) drew this editorial cartoon for the June 17, 1944 issue of the Richmond…

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  Letter from Anna Charlotte Lynch to Edgar Allan Poe

  In this letter, dated June 25, 1845, the poet Anna Charlotte Lynch (1815-1891) asks Poe to deliver…

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  Maunscript for "Siope"

  Later renamed "Silence," "Siope" is among Poe's earliest short stories. It took him six years to…

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  "The Bells" in Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art

  This is the first printing of Poe's poem "The Bells." Though Poe wrote the poem in 1848, it was not…

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  Poe's Sister's Artwork

  Edgar Allan Poe's only sister, Rosalie Poe (1810-1874), painted and embroidered this handkerchief…

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  Parody of "The Raven" from The Tomahawk

  This British magazine, The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal of Satire," published July 27, 1867…

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