William Drayton
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William Drayton was an American politician, banker, and writer who grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. He was the son of William Drayton Sr., who served as justice of the Province of East Florida.
Portrait by Samuel Morse, 1818
Thomas Fenwick Drayton, General CSA
Percival Drayton, Captain USN
Battle of Port Royal November 7, 1861
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
William Drayton
…His papers are held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The author Edgar Allan Poe dedicated his collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) to him. The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanatacism of the Northern Abolitionists, H. Manly (Philadelphia), 1836…
Title page for volume I