[John Henry Hopkins], review in the Literary World

Hopkins visited Poe at Fordham in April 1848, when they argued about pantheism; on 15 May he informed Poe that he had seen the MS. of Eureka in Putnam's office, and warned that he would have to attack it (MS. in Boston Public Library). Moreover, he advised Mrs Shew to break off her relationship with Poe — see Letters,2, 364–5. Poe believed that Hopkins, the ‘Student of Theology’, was the author of this review, and he wrote an indignant reply to the editor of the Literary World,Charles Fenno Hoffmann — see Letters2, 379–82.