Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic short story The…
June 1843 CE
His short story The Gold-Bug begins serialization in American newspapers on June 21.
Poe had left Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine after about a year and found a position as assistant at Graham's Magazine.
In June 1840, Poe hsd published a prospectus announcing his intentions to start his own journal called The Stylus.
Originally, Poe intended to call the journal The Penn, as it would have been based in Philadelphia.
In the June 6, 1840 issue of Philadelphia's Saturday Evening Post, Poe bought advertising space for his prospectus: "Prospectus of the Penn Magazine, a Monthly Literary journal to be edited and published in the city of Philadelphia by Edgar A. Poe."
The journal will never be produced before Poe's death.
Around this time, he had attempted to secure a position within the Tyler administration, claiming that he was a member of the Whig Party.
He hoped to be appointed to the Custom House in Philadelphia with help from President Tyler's son Robert, an acquaintance of Poe's friend Frederick Thomas.
Poe had failed to show up for a meeting with Thomas to discuss the appointment in mid-September 1842, claiming to have been sick, though Thomas believed that he had been drunk.
Though he was promised an appointment, all positions were filled by others.
One evening in January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of consumption, now known as tuberculosis, while singing and playing the piano.
Poe had described it as breaking a blood vessel in her throat.
She has only partially recovered.
Poe has begun to drink more heavily under the stress of Virginia's illness.
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