MEDIA Show Media Credit: The Museum of Edgar Allan PoeOriginal Author: UnknownCreated: Probably first half of nineteenth centuryMedium: Oil on canvasThomas Willis WhiteThomas Willis White, the founder of the Southern Literary Messenger, a literary journal in Richmond, is the subject of this oil painting.FEATURED INEdgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)Southern Literary MessengerAugustine Davis (ca. 1752 or 1753–1825)