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Poe’s Balloon Hoax Yields Diamonds in the Sky – Part II of II

  As I  noted in Part I of this column, J. Harris was one of the many researchers who connected Locke’s “Moon Hoax” with Poe’s April 1844 New York Sun columns on

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Poe’s Great Balloon Hoax – Part I of II

This article is an excerpt from Murray Ellison’s VCU MA Thesis on Poe and Nineteenth-Century Science, ©2015. It was first published 8/20/2018 on the Richmond, VA Poe Museum Website: www.poemuseum.org Near