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Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poes' Death
On September 27, 1849, Poe left Richmond, Virginia. He was on his way back to his home in New York. A week later he was found wasted on the streets of baltimore near Gunner's Hall, on October 3. Joesph W. Walkera person on sigh sent a letter asking for immdeiate help from Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass. "Dear Sir—There is a gentleman, rather the worse for wear, at Ryan's 4th ward polls, who goes under the cognomen of Edgar A. Poe, and who appears in great distress, & he says he is acquainted with you, and I assure you, he is in need of immediate assistance. Yours, in haste, Jos. W. Walker" Dr. Snodgrass later said that Poe was beyond recognition intoxicated. The reasons behind him being so terribly drunk circulate around the fact of the death of his wife two years previously due to tuberculosis. [] Their were no death records, no certificate everything has been lost or not made. But Alcohol poisoning, overdose on opium, tuberculosis to even a murder conspiracy planned out by John Evangelist Walsh's. May he rest in peace. []