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Caldwell encloses three dollars for the Broadway Journal, requests missing issues, and urges Poe to publish the Messenger Star following criticism by the Boston press. The continuation, closing, signature and recipient are included. Punctuation and line wrapping are normalized, and underlining is not represented. The later inverted filing docket is not transcribed. Public text only; no locally held facsimile, postal address face or enclosed payment is claimed.","review_state":"Known limitations","rights_note":"Underlying 1845 manuscript by William W. Caldwell Jr. (1823–1908); independent visual reading prepared by Crypt of Echoes. Source credit: The Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia, object 81.19.91. 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