Poe wrote to his mother-in-law on 14 July 1849, thanking Burr for his help, "I am indebted for more than life itself to B[urr]... When all failed me, he stood my friend, got me money, and saw me off in the cars for Richmond." Burr repaid Poe posthumously by publishing a number of pro-Poe articles in The Old Guard, even poems clearly based on Poe's. Of special value to Poe scholars is an article published in the June 1866 issue, "Poe and his Biographer, Griswold", in which Burr presents documentary evidence that countered some of the criticism leveled against Poe by Rufus Wilmot Griswold, including letters by those who knew Poe. Burr also officiated at the marriage of another famous writer of the era, George Lippard, held on a rock at sunset above the Wissahickon. References External links Full-text access to The Old Guard at Cornell University Library Journalists from Maine American magazine editors 1817 births 1883 deaths 19th-century American journalists Maine Democrats American male journalists 19th-century American male writers Copperheads (politics)