Regarding your story, "Mysterious Poe visitor doesn't show for 2nd year" (Jan. 19), the only mystery is that it has taken the old boy this long to figure out that he needs to toast Poe's birthdays in the city where the happy event took place, which would be, let me see, not Baltimore but, oh that's right, Boston! Rumor has it that the Toaster, having recently moved, has been spotted walking from the Frog Pond on Boston Common, which Poe loved to joke about, over to the recently dedicated Edgar Allan Poe Square, in search of 62 Charles Street South where the great American author and critic was born.

Here's an idea: the Toaster should celebrate Poe's birthday here in Boston and then get down to Baltimore every October 7th to commemorate the fact that when Poe died there during what was supposed to be a brief stopover, he was buried in an obscure spot without fanfare or attention.

Paul Lewis, Boston

The writer is chairman of the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston.