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Overhaul

I'm working on a massive overhaul of this page. This is the full version of the article prior to my edit, in case it needs to be reverted or anything. Midnightdreary 21:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Overhaul is complete. I think it came out okay - but it's always a work-in-progress. Midnightdreary 06:08, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Revival website

I'd like to direct your attention to a website now operating under the name "Southern Literary Messenger" in honor of the original magazine. http://www.southernliterarymessenger.com

Surely a mention of the electronic revival is of interest to readers here.

72.87.192.166 (talk) 10:02, 4 October 2008 (UTC) JJ Burke[reply]

"Of interest" is not quite how it works here. Mentions of web sites have to meet certain notability requirements. I'm not sure this one does. Anyone else have thoughts on this? --Midnightdreary (talk) 11:03, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've rethought this - the journal was created specifically as a revival of the historical SLM and particularly because of the connection to Poe (which, I can't deny, is good enough for me). Anyone else is welcome to pipe in. --Midnightdreary (talk) 22:43, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Details about Revision

I reverted two edits from 29 June 2019, deleting this text: "The 1820s and 1830s Thomas W. White wrote the pro-Slavery arguments, including 1832 Nat Turner's House of Delgates" because I can't find any sources that support it. What I found is that White printed pamphlets of speeches about Nat Turner given by pro-slavery members of the House of Delegates. Because these speeches were not written by White and were not published in the Southern Literary Messenger itself, the quoted text doesn't really appear to fit in this specific article. If anyone disagrees, the grammatical errors in the sentence need to be cleaned up. Also, I would suggest moving the sentence to the wiki page on White himself. 2600:100A:B118:7531:0:D:70A2:9301 2600:100A:B118:7531:0:D:70A2:9301 (talk) 20:42, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]