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Chapter 34
A Historical Note on Edgar Allan Poe
N.B. The names underlined are of those members of the family who were alive in September 1819
THE NARRATIVE OF THOMAS SHIELD
8th September 1819 – 23rd May 1820
We owe respect to the living, Voltaire tells us in his Première Lettre sur Oedipe, but to the dead we owe only truth. The truth is that there are days when the world changes, and a man does not notice because his mind is on his own affairs.
I first saw Sophia Frant shortly before midday on Wednesday the 8th of September,