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Chuck,
If you read background material on Poe during the shell book period, it states that he was down-and-out, needing money and took on the writing project as a last resort. It also states that he was accused of plagerizing some of the text. Sad!
Add actor Peter Strauss (Rich Man Poor Man TV mini-series, etc.) to the list of notable shell collectors. I know for a fact that he collects Cypraea.
Rich
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>Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:03:21 -0800
>From: Charles L Powell <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Famous collectors
>To: [log in to unmask]
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> If I remember right Emery Chase once showed me a
> book by Edgar Allen Poe on shells. If he wrote a
> book I image he'd be a collector.
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> Best,
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> Chuck
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> Charles L Powell, II
> Western Earth Surface Processes Team, MS 975
> U. S. Geological Survey
> 345 Middlefield Rd.
> Menlo Park, CA 94025
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