ABSTRACT
This notice was probably written by Lambert Wilmer, literary editor of the Visiter.Wilmer (1805–63) met Poe in Baltimore in 1827,and based his drama ‘Merlin’ on what he had heard of his romance with Miss Royster. His interest in Poe lasted: he defended him against Griswold's calumnies, and his recollections of him appeared in 1866 — see Lambert A. Wilmer, Merlin,Together with Recollections ofEdgar A. Poe,ed. Thomas O. Mabbott
