While traveling alone from Richmond, Virginia, to New York City, Poe disappeared for nearly a week.
However, Poe adherents suggested many theories of a physical nature about precipitating causes but no one has ser.
The immediate cause of Death given was "congestion of the brain." At first no one seriously doubted that Poe died from drunken debauchery.
In the hospital, four days later, after periods of raving delirium, he died.
When seen again he was terribly drunk and nearly dead in Baltimore.
While traveling alone from Richmond, Virginia, to New York City, Poe disappeared for nearly a week