Comments on: Not long ago on eBay… http://pursedlips.com/2010/02/27/not-long-ago-on-ebay/ Just another JournURL site Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Undine http://pursedlips.com/2010/02/27/not-long-ago-on-ebay/#comment-96 Undine Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:47:48 +0000 http://pl.agincourtmedia.com/?p=826#comment-96 "I haven’t found any foundation for the claims that major authors were smittened by Jewett..." You won't, because they weren't. Whoever wrote this listing confused Jewett with Mary Rogers, another famous New York murder victim. There is a legend that Poe and Washington Irving, among other authors, frequented the tobacco shop where Rogers worked, but that's unproven (and, to my mind, unlikely.) “I haven’t found any foundation for the claims that major authors were smittened by Jewett…”

You won’t, because they weren’t. Whoever wrote this listing confused Jewett with Mary Rogers, another famous New York murder victim. There is a legend that Poe and Washington Irving, among other authors, frequented the tobacco shop where Rogers worked, but that’s unproven (and, to my mind, unlikely.)

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