University of Virginia Library

Greetings

Dr. Charles W. Kent, chairman of the committee
in charge of these exercises, sent greetings
to other assemblages met to honor Poe:

Mr. Albert E. Davis, the Poe Cottage at
Fordham:

We gather in his University room and you
in his ill-starred cottage to honor the genius
that has made each domicile a Mecca.

Dr. Ira Remsen, Johns Hopkins University:

The University of Virginia, mindful of Baltimore's
guardianship of Poe's ashes and your
University's loyalty to the Southland's poets,
congratulates city and University alike on the
tribute they pay to his genius.

Authors' Club, London:

The University of Virginia has pride in
your recognition of her son.

Dr. George A. Wauchope, University of South
Carolina:

The University of Virginia congratulates

the University of South Carolina on its celebration
of the Poe Centenary. May the land
that created heroes never forget them!

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University:

Jefferson's University hails Hamilton's in
their common recognition of Poe's genius,
and yields her State's right in him to the
world-wide federation of letters.

Chancellor Henry M. McCracken, New York
University:

The University of Virginia greets New
York University with the hope that the Hall
of Fame may some day be as hospitable to
genius as is your University to-day.

To this the Chancellor responded: New
York University reciprocates the greeting of
the University of Virginia, and will gladly
fellowship with her in communicating to the
one hundred electors of the Hall of Fame,
representing all the forty-five states of our
Union, important facts and enduring sentiments
respecting famous Americans.