Octavia was in her element. A sweet snowbird lady who showed up thirty minutes early while I was setting up took a picture. If swgb will row over sometime this week and rewalk me through how to post pictures and videos, I might be able to include a picture I took of my book display. I had brought several of my 1800s books, etc. to share. Octavia wrote Souvenirs of Travel in 1857, and I have a copy. Washington Irving was one of her dear friends and I had a small book of his on display, though printed after his death. Of course, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a poem for Octavia. It was one of his first. He was just 18 and Octavia was 16. She was traveling and met him in Baltimore. He was so impressed, he wrote a poem for her. It was published in his 1827 Tamerlane, but many so called later "complete" works of Poe don't include it. However, the new complete and unabridged works of Poe published by Barnes and Noble does include the poem on page 8.
I couldn't make it- but I bet Octavia was great!!
