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Confidence votes 16.6K. It is not known exactly when Edgar Allan Poe began writing poetry, but as early as 1824 he wrote the words, The requiem for the loveliest dead that ever died so young.. He was 15, and wrote them in memory of a female friend.
Thanks to his notorious drinking and gambling habits, the city of Richmond was not immediately keen on establishing monuments to the author, and even shot down a proposal for a public statue from the eventual founders of the Poe Museum. Nonetheless, the Poe Museum was established in 1922 in the oldest building in Richmond. The founders collected anything they could that related to the authorâs life, including furniture, correspondence, manuscripts, trinkets, and clothing, just to name some of the type of exhibits. The ranging collection even includes such oddities as a lock of Poeâs hair collected after his death and some socks that were found in a trunk that belonged to the author. There is even a scale model of the ...