josep, interesting thread. I hope you find some good research and that this thread gets back on track. I have always loved Poe's writings and, in fact, as a young girl I once read he was so poor, writing in a garret one winter, the only way he could put pen to paper was to warm his fingers in a small bowl of heated water (don't remember what the claim was as to how he heated it but not his room.) Anyway, from then on, I pretended, once in awhile, to be a poor, cold writer and dipped my fingers in a bowl of hot water I had from the kitchen of my parents' house.:-)