Answer:
in short his long lost girl-friend...
Explanation:
At sixteen, young Poe fell in love with Sarah Elmira Royster, to whom he became "engaged" without parental consent. In February 1826 Poe entered the University of Virginia, where he excelled in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, and Italian.
The first woman to do so was Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, rumored to have been his fiancée at the time of his death. Poe had known Shelton since childhood, when they were neighbors and first took a romantic interest in each other. They fell out of contact when Poe left for University of Virginia and Shelton married another man. They did not speak again until 1848 after the death of Poe’s wife Virginia. By that time, Shelton was a widow and Poe took the opportunity to ask her to marry him. She declined, but he continued to pursue her for several months. Poe wrote to his aunt, Muddy, to tell her that the two would be married in October 1849 but he died just ten days before the supposed wedding date arrived.
In Poe’s letter to Muddy he seemed quite certain that he and Shelton would be married, but Elmira herself may not have been so sure. Rumors circulated that the two were not truly engaged. It’s unclear if they were ever engaged at all, let alone planning a wedding.
Despite the rumors and Shelton’s possible doubts, after Poe’s death she took a very active role in his family. She wrote to the doctor who had attended to Poe in the week before his death asking to know every detail of Poe’s final days. She mourned Poe’s death as a member of his family. One newspaper cited Shelton as “perhaps the only person who could speak authoritatively upon the history of the last few months of [Poe’s] life spent in the city of Richmond.” To everyone following the widely-covered story of Poe’s death in newspapers and magazines, she presented herself as his devoted fiancée.
