Baltimore Saturday Visiter

The Baltimore Saturday Visiter was a weekly periodical in Baltimore, Maryland, in the 19th century. It published some of the early work of Baltimore writer Edgar Allan Poe.

October, 1833

History

It was established in 1832 by Charles Cloud and Lambert Wilmer, a friend of Poe. Popular at first, the Visiter later became abolitionist and in 1847 was absorbed by the abolitionist National Era of Washington D.C.

Poe submitted to the Visiter six tales as entries to a contest sponsored by the publication. The newspaper promised a $50 prize for the best tale and a $25 prize for the best poem submitted by October 1, 1833. About 100 entries were received but the judges chose Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" for its originality. In addition to the $50 prize, the story was published in the October 19 issue of the Visiter.[1] The contest, however, had some controversy. The winner of the poetry portion of the contest, "Henry Wilton," was revealed to actually be John Hewitt, the editor of the Visiter. Poe claimed Hewitt had won by "underhanded means."[2]

Notes
  • ^1 Alternately named the Saturday Morning Visiter (1832–33), Baltimore Saturday Visiter (1833–34), Baltimore Visiter (1834–40), Saturday Morning Visiter (1840–41), and Saturday Morning Visitor (1841–47).
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gollark: This is a way you can do that, though.
gollark: So you can expand out `(x-1)(ax^3+bx^2+cx+d)` and get some kind of quartic thing.
gollark: You know it's equal to x-1 times a cubic of some sort, and you want to know exactly what cubic.
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References
  1. Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. Harper Perennial, 1991. pp. 90–91
  2. Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. Harper Perennial, 1991. pp. 93

General
  • Entry for Baltimore Saturday Visiter. Guide to Maryland Newspapers. Maryland State Archives. Jan. 15, 2007.
  • Entry for Baltimore Saturday Visitor. Guide to Maryland Newspapers. Maryland State Archives. Jan. 15, 2007.
  • Entry for Baltimore Visiter. Guide to Maryland Newspapers. Maryland State Archives. Jan. 15, 2007.
  • Entry for Saturday Morning Visiter. Guide to Maryland Newspapers. Maryland State Archives. Jan. 15, 2007.
  • French, John C. (1918). "Poe and the Baltimore Saturday Visiter". Modern Language Notes. Johns Hopkins University Press. 33 (5): 257–67. doi:10.2307/2915307. ISSN 0149-6611. JSTOR 2915307 – via JSTOR.
  • Hall, Clayton Colman. Baltimore: Its History and Its People vol. 1. Lewis Historical Publishing Co. Digitized Sept. 11, 2006. p. 712, Retrieved Jan. 28, 2007.
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