3/6/1831 They can't make a soldier out of Poe

March 6, 1831.  On this date Edgar Allan Poe was expelled from West Point.  No good will ever come of that boy.

3/2/1831 Seeley Regester registers

March 2, 1831.  Metta Victoria Fuller was born on this day.  She married publisher Orville James Victor and, under the same Seeley Regester she wrote more than 100 novels.  Her book The Dead Letter (1866) is considered the first American crime novel.

2/28/1830 A major Payn appears

February 28, 1830.  English author James Payn was born on this date in Maidenhead.  He wrote many novels, and books of essays and short stories.  But he owes his place on this page to one accomplishment: as editor of Cornhill Magazine he turned down Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study In Scarlet.  Yup.  He is the man who rejected Sherlock Holmes.

And you thought you were having a bad day.