aug 1, 1849 - Engaged again.
Description:
Poe travels to Richmond and convinces his childhood sweetheart, Elmira Royster Shelton, to become his fiancée. He joins the Sons of Temperance, an organization that forbids drinking (sort of like a nineteenth-century equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous). The next month, Poe travels to Baltimore.Added to timeline:
Date:
aug 1, 1849
Now
~ 177 years ago