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The three reference photographs from the 2008 edition are retained privately for verification. Superscripts, ornamental rules, indentation and column layout are simplified. The letter reads “just writ.” in the supplied image; the poem retains this copy’s “truth,” “languid” and “angels” readings. Punctuation remains subject to the resolution of the source images. This record represents the distinct Chester letter and its accompanying copy, not a second import of an already held printed edition of the poem.","review_state":"Known limitations","rights_note":"Underlying nineteenth-century writing by Edgar Allan Poe. The letter portion was printed in the Rochester Post Express, April 2, 1887, and For Annie was first published in 1849. This independently prepared reading reproduces Poe’s writing, with new descriptive notes by Crypt of Echoes. 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