I am honored for the interest in our project, regardless of how limited, that others have shown in Poe's Scottish Connections. Actually, most at the attendees of the international conferences have little, if any, knowledge of Poe, as the attendees from Asia to the 8th Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, in the photo. Pictured are professors from Asian universities, and Ms. Kenmotsu, who acted as interpreter. Nevertheless, those organizations and publications listed to the left are the patrons of Poe scholarship, and have seen some of our information worthy of mention or publication.
Our complete list of published articles has been submitted to both the Modern Language Association (MLA), as well as the Poe Studies, Department of English, Washington Stat University, through Guest Editor, Professor Susan Amper, of the POE STUDIES/DARK ROMANTICISM: History, Theory, Interpretation. The several Burns Chronicle articles are not available through intra-library loan and research facilities. Any mention of our information in these publications does not constitute an endorsement of my findings, but merely are shared with other students of Poe.
Our articles are written and published as a "filler" until such time as our complete work can be published. URLs of local newspapers in Ayrshire, Scotland, that published articles and photographs of our project are not provided. Moreover, other institutional and organizational repositories of our journalistic collage are not provided for reasons of ethics against intrusion of their primary function.
Please forgive spelling and typographical errors. The author has serious dyslexia, and my "spell-checker," Grace Kenmotsu, reviews and edits these pages as her schedule allows. SEE www.irvinetrades.org for the tour of the Irvine Churchyard, by correspondant, local historian Billy Kerr.
As one looks at the photograph of Edgar Allan Poe, above, it is almost impossible to comprehend that he was nearly starving. In the last years of his life, he scarcely had enough food daily to sustain strength, much less the rudiments of a standard of living that one requires of academic thought, literary creativity, and profound writing. Yet how judgemental all have been of him because he drank wine, and engaged in other human activities and behavior, regarded by many as "vises." The comments and pretensions of such ignorant persons are fully addressed in our book.
I regret that a search of "Edgar Allan Poe" in the search engines, such as google and AOL, do not reveal the presence of our pages. Nevertheless, sometimes the information that we have is connected to other websites. When I created this project, I was not knowledgable about the Internet, and did not think to acquire a domain name that included something of Poe than what we have. I have since purchased other domain names that do have the full name of Edgar Allan Poe, such as the edgarallanpoecannon, and so on. For our purposes, and budget, www.poeinscotland.com is adequate.
