2 thoughts on “Twain’s Letter About Edgar Allan Poe and Jane Austen

  1. I’m here to announce that both Edgar & Samuel were in fact related. Very distantly. But still related. My family is very proud to enstate that Samuel is apart of my family. He was my 5x great uncle. Recently searching my family tree I stumbled across a Maria Clemens who is undoubtedly Poe’s adoptive mother. Which in turn was Samuel’s distant cousin. Though they aren’t related by blood, it is still amazing to be the one to come to this conclusion. Both Samuel and Edgar are distant cousins, adoptively.

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