... books they could carry with them and readon the go. In a letter to Washington Irving, Poe predicted, ` `The brief, the terse, the condensed, and the easily circulated will takeplace of the diffuse, ... friends and correspondents, and the Brownings and Charles Dickens wereamong the grateful recipients. Presenting copies of his own works toothers, Poe began receiving copies from them. Among the handful ... ashare in the Library Company of Baltimore a dozen years before. AsAustin Keep explained in his ®ne history of the Library, the expenseof the shares and the fact that they were often handed down...