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Thomas Willis White
Credit: The Museum of Edgar Allan Poe
Original Author: Unknown
Created: Probably first half of nineteenth century
Medium: Oil on canvas

Thomas Willis White

Thomas Willis White, the founder of the Southern Literary Messenger, a literary journal in Richmond, is the subject of this oil painting.

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