Box 54

Scope and Contents A notebook of the early 20th century, quarter bound in brown leather with green fabric covers and the title “Leonaine” on the spine. The book contains materials related to the scandal surrounding the poem “Leonainie” by American writer James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), who originally published the work in the Kokomo Dispatch under a fictitious name, claiming it was a lost poem of Edgar Allan Poe. Included are 7 articles and news clippings, some complete and some partial, from a number of...