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A primary-source collection documenting Edgar Allan Poe through preserved magazine and newspaper printings, illustrated editions, correspondence, and related literary records. Spanning his lifetime appearances alongside later editions and reception, each record is cataloged with its original scans, publication details, and known limitations for close study and comparison.
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Read the 1887 Current printing of an excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s July 19, 1838 appeal to James Kirke Paulding for a clerkship. Local page scan, reading PDF and searchable text; complete letter still sought.
Read Edgar Allan Poe’s July 14, 1839 letter to George W. Poe, including its handwritten family tree, autobiographical account and postal address. Four manuscript faces represented, with damaged passages marked.
Read Edgar Allan Poe’s September 18, 1849 letter to poet Marguerite St. Leon Loud about her proposed book and a visit to Philadelphia. Complete local reading, including the postal address, checked against the museum m...
Read William W. Caldwell Jr.’s October 20, 1845 letter subscribing to Poe’s Broadway Journal and requesting publication of the Messenger Star. Complete local reading checked against both written manuscript faces.
Read Edgar Allan Poe’s June 20, 1843 letter to Lucy Dorothea Henry answering her request for an autograph. A complete local reading checked against the signed Poe Museum manuscript.
Read Anne Charlotte Lynch’s June 25, 1845 note asking Edgar Allan Poe to deliver a poem to John Keese for The Opal. A complete local reading checked against the Poe Museum manuscript, distinct from her invitation sign...
View the locally preserved envelope addressed by Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman, postmarked June 15, with a note identifying the enclosed manuscript of To Helen. Includes the original scan, a PDF and searchabl...
Read a complete local transcription of the disputed May 10, 1849 letter to John R. Thompson concerning Marginalia and a manuscript of The Raven. Authorship remains unresolved; this item is excluded from the verified P...
Poe answers Anson G. Chester’s request for an autograph poem and asks him to keep it private until publication. Read the complete signed letter and its accompanying manuscript version of For Annie in a checked local t...
Poe proposes a year of Marginalia for the Southern Literary Messenger at two dollars a page. The local 1916 printing includes the complete letter quotation and its postscript.
Mary Elizabeth Hewitt asks about Poe’s health, mentions Frances Osgood and sends a poem. The manuscript salutation identifies Poe as recipient despite the source catalogue’s Osgood heading.
Poe introduces the poet Estelle Anna Lewis to Annie Richmond, recalling his Lowell lecture. Read the complete written face in a locally hosted 1935 facsimile and checked searchable text.
Poe asks Bronson whether a poem meets his requirements and invites him and his daughter to Fordham. The preserved object also contains M. E. LeDuc’s later account. Read the locally hosted manuscript images and searcha...
Poe discusses his libel verdict, The Stylus, Hawthorne and his Valdemar story, explicitly calling the latter a hoax in the postscript. Read the locally hosted manuscript images and searchable letter text.
Poe asks Lowell to retrieve The Tell-Tale Heart from the Boston Miscellany and consider it for the first issue of The Pioneer. Read the locally hosted manuscript images and searchable letter text.
Poe solicits a contribution from Edward Everett for the Southern Literary Messenger and describes plans for an issue by distinguished American writers. Read the locally hosted letter transcription.
Poe asks Kettell to replace a Marginalia passage about Richard Adams Locke and return the manuscript through Mrs. Clemm. Read the locally hosted letter transcription.
Poe asks Dow to send more of his Old Ironsides series because the compositors are waiting and The Levanter is not long enough. Read the locally hosted letter transcription.
Poe writes to John R. Thompson about Fordham, the Southern Literary Messenger and Susan Talley’s poem Genius. Complete letter text with local source scans.
Poe requests a review copy of Bulwer’s Rienzi for the Southern Literary Messenger. Read the complete letter with locally preserved scans and checked text.
Read Poe’s February 18, 1845 letter offering Duyckinck a selection of his stories, with a locally hosted manuscript image and checked transcription.
Read the complete surviving text of Poe’s unfinished Light-House, including its opening, with locally hosted story-column scans and a checked transcription of the 1942 printing.
Read Baudelaire’s complete 1852 French essay on Poe in 54 locally hosted scanned pages from the 1908 collected edition, with searchable OCR.
Read the 1841-10-27 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick William Thomas locally. Poe discusses Thomas’s writing, phrenology, Graham’s Magazine circulation and his hopes for the Penn Magazine. This preserves the el...
Read the 1839-10-07 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass locally. Includes the paragraph about Neilson Poe omitted by early printings. The complete letter was published in the 1940 Americana article; ...
Read the 1840-04-24 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Hiram Haines locally. Poe thanks Haines for offering Virginia a pet fawn and offers help promoting the Virginia Star. The underlying letter was published in a serial ...
Read Poe’s August 19, 1836 letter asking Hiram Haines to review the Southern Literary Messenger, with a local manuscript reproduction and searchable reading text.
Read Poe’s July 4, 1836 letter to Lewis Cass requesting a Southern Literary Messenger contribution, with a local historical facsimile and searchable reading text.
Disputed attribution: inspect the locally preserved manuscript addressed to George Palmer Putnam. Scholarly doubts and digitization limits are stated.
Disputed attribution: inspect the locally preserved manuscript addressed to Sarah Anna Lewis. Scholarly doubts and digitization limits are stated.
Disputed attribution: inspect the locally preserved manuscript addressed to Charles Henry Marshall. Scholarly doubts and digitization limits are stated.
Disputed attribution: inspect the locally preserved manuscript addressed to an unidentified recipient. Scholarly doubts and digitization limits are stated.
Disputed attribution: inspect the locally preserved manuscript addressed to Charles Edwards Lester. Scholarly doubts and digitization limits are stated.
Disputed attribution: inspect the locally preserved manuscript addressed to Fitz-Greene Halleck. Scholarly doubts and digitization limits are stated.
Read Poe’s July 17, 1846 letter asking John Bisco to visit attorney E. L. Fancher, with a local manuscript image and reading text.
Read Poe’s complete September 26, 1836 request to Charles Ellis for $50 in dry goods, with a local manuscript image and reading text.
Read the complete November 1845 Broadway Journal circular in a locally hosted historical facsimile and reading text.
Read Eveleth’s 1849-02-17 letter to Poe in a locally preserved 1922 historical printing, with 2 source pages and searchable reading text.
Read Eveleth’s 1848-07-09 letter to Poe in a locally preserved 1922 historical printing, with 3 source pages and searchable reading text.
Read Eveleth’s 1848-03-09 letter to Poe in a locally preserved 1922 historical printing, with 3 source pages and searchable reading text.
Read Eveleth’s 1848-01-11 letter to Poe in a locally preserved 1922 historical printing, with 3 source pages and searchable reading text.
Read Eveleth’s 1846-10-13 letter to Poe in a locally preserved 1922 historical printing, with 2 source pages and searchable reading text.
Read Eveleth’s 1846-04-03 letter to Poe in a locally preserved 1922 historical printing, with 2 source pages and searchable reading text.
Read Eveleth’s 1846-01-05 letter to Poe in a locally preserved 1922 historical printing, with 1 source pages and searchable reading text.
Read Eveleth’s 1845-12-21 letter to Poe in a locally preserved 1922 historical printing, with 3 source pages and searchable reading text.
Read the locally preserved 1829 letter and accompanying poetry excerpts to John Neal, with all 4 pages of the historical printing and searchable OCR.
Read the locally preserved 1835 letter to William Poe about family history and support for Maria Clemm, with all 3 pages of the historical printing and searchable OCR.
Read six local scans of James Frederick Otis’s June 11, 1836 letter, attributed to Poe as editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, with its surviving autograph material.
Read local scans of Poe’s August 29, 1835 letter to Maria and Virginia Clemm about joining him in Richmond, with the damaged original and a historical handwritten copy preserved together.
Read the February 4, 1845 New-York Daily Tribune printing of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, preserved locally as a full newspaper-page scan and reading PDF.
Read the 1848-10-18 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas L. Dunnell locally. A short acceptance of an invitation to lecture in Providence; this complete brief note should not be confused with an excerpt of a longer l...
Read the 1845-11-30 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to George Poe Jr. locally. Surviving letter fragment. The bottom of the original was cut off; the missing ending and signature are not reconstructed. The final gap marke...
Read the 1844-02-01 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Pendleton Kennedy locally. February 1, 1844 and Baltimore are assigned by the scholarly editors; the text itself says only Thursday Morning, 7 A.M. The source no...
Read the 1835-10-31 letter from Thomas W. White (written by Edgar Allan Poe) to Lucian Minor locally. Only this printed fragment is preserved here. The catalogue attributes the handwriting to Poe but the signature to ...
Read local scans of John Tomlin’s October 16, 1839 letter to Edgar Allan Poe, submitting Theodoric of the Amali for criticism. Both repository images and a local reading PDF are included.
Read the 1845-08-15 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Laughton Osborn locally. The source notes identify the 1909 sale catalogue as the first printing. This letter replies to Osborn’s August 14 letter.
Read the 1843-04-22 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas G. Mackenzie locally. Poe asks Mackenzie to inquire discreetly about purchasing the Southern Literary Messenger.
Read the 1836-06-08 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch locally. The full first printing is identified in the scholarly edition’s source notes. This is separate from the February 9, 1836 Bulfinch...
Read the 1835-10-08 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Robert Montgomery Bird locally. Poe wrote on behalf of Southern Literary Messenger proprietor Thomas W. White. The date follows the scholarly checklist; later sale ca...
Read the 1848-12-16 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman locally. Surviving letter fragment. December 16, 1848 is the date assigned by the scholarly checklist, not a complete date written on the fragment...
Read the 1848-07-15 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Mary Osborne locally. This reading retains the full text offered by the manuscript-text source, rather than the shortened Phillips extract.
Read the 1846-06-15 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph M. Field locally. The ellipsis within Poe’s quotation of Elizabeth Barrett’s comments is retained. Manuscript cancellations and uncertain readings remain visib...
Read the 1839-12-25 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph B. Boyd locally. The letter includes Poe’s autograph copy of Silence — A Sonnet; it is retained as part of the correspondence.
Read the 1842-09-12 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick William Thomas locally. Poe discusses an expected customs appointment, magazine contributors and Virginia’s improving health. This preserves the historical ...
Read the 1841-07-12 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass locally. Poe discusses forthcoming poems and asks Snodgrass to redirect a misaddressed letter to John Pendleton Kennedy.
Read the 1841-06-26 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick William Thomas locally. Poe asks Thomas about securing a government post and sends the July issue of Graham’s Magazine. The final postscript is retained.
Read the 1841-05-03 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow locally. Poe asks Longfellow to contribute to Graham’s Magazine. This is a separate letter from his June 22, 1841 proposal; the 1887 Longfe...
Read the 1841-04-01 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass locally. Poe explains the delay to the Penn Magazine project and discusses his work with Graham. Historical statements about his conduct are pr...
View local scans of Poe’s Before May 8, 1841 correspondence to Rufus W. Griswold. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. The manuscript is assigned to before May 8, 1841, not an exact writing...
View local scans of Poe’s Before May 27, 1829 correspondence to Isaac Lea. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. The letter is undated; the scholarly checklist assigns it to before May 27, 1...
Read the 1846-12-30 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Arch Ramsay locally. Poe identifies the Valdemar story as a hoax. The postscript asking about Allan family connections in Stonehaven is retained.
Read the 1846-12-24 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to William D. Ticknor locally. Poe requests Oliver Wendell Holmes’s poems, biographical information and an autograph for his planned Literary America.
Read the 1844-03-15 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Cornelius Mathews locally. Poe asks how to send a parcel to Richard Henry Horne and acknowledges his earlier criticism of Mathews.
Read the 1841-11-16 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Lydia Howard Sigourney locally. The manuscript dateline says 1842; the scholarly checklist identifies the letter as November 16, 1841. The erroneous 1842 is retained ...
Read the 1841-11-10 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Lydia Howard Sigourney locally. Poe asks Sigourney to send a poem for the January number of Graham’s Magazine.
Read the 1841-09-01 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick William Thomas locally. Poe requests biographical details for Griswold and reports the circulation of Graham’s Magazine.
Read the 1841-06-21 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving locally. Poe invites Irving to contribute to a proposed magazine. The proposal shares wording with his separately preserved letter to Longfellow; th...
Read the 1833-05-04 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Messrs. Buckingham locally. The manuscript is dated May 4 without a year; 1833 follows the scholarly checklist. The letter’s final postscript, “I am poor,” is retaine...
Read the 1824-11-17 letter from Edgar Allan Poe and John Lyle to Governor and Council of Virginia locally. Joint request by John Lyle and Edgar Allan Poe on behalf of the Richmond Junior Volunteers to retain arms. Bot...
Read the 1844-05-31 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah J. Hale locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify unce...
Read the 1844-07-10 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas H. Chivers locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify ...
Read the 1842-09-27 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas H. Chivers locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify ...
Read the 1842-06-04 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, iden...
Read the 1842-02-03 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick W. Thomas locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identif...
Read the 1841-11-26 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick W. Thomas locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identif...
Read the 1841-11-18 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Richard Bolton locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify unc...
Read the 1836-09-02 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Harrison Hall locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify unce...
Read the 1836-07-16 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Littleton W. Tazewell locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, ident...
Read the 1836-06-07 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to James Fenimore Cooper locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, ident...
Read the 1836-05-02 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, i...
Read the 1836-03-03 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Collins McCabe locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identif...
Read the 1835-12-01 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, i...
Read the 1848-12 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Anna Lewis locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify unce...
Read the 1848-07-14 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas H. Chivers locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify ...
Read the 1846-07-22 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas Holley Chivers locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, ident...
Read the 1846-06-27 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Henry B. Hirst locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify unc...
Read the 1846-01-16 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah J. Hale locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify unce...
Read the 1845-11-15 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas H. Chivers locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify ...
Read the 1845-08-29 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas H. Chivers locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify ...
Read the 1845-08-11 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas H. Chivers locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify ...
Read the 1845-03-17 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Jedediah Hunt, Jr. locally. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify...
Read the 1840-06-08 letter from John Neal to Edgar Allan Poe locally. This is Neal’s reply to Poe, not Poe’s earlier letter. Historical comments on national identity remain part of Neal’s text.
Read the 1841-08-14 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Horatio Hastings Weld locally. The letter requests an autograph and biographical information for the Autography series.
Read the 1836-10-20 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Josepha Hale locally. Poe wrote 1837 in the dateline; the scholarly checklist corrects this to 1836. The original erroneous year is retained in the text.
View local scans of Poe’s 1849-07-07 correspondence to Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. A short unsigned note to Anna Lewis accompanying a separate letter t...
View local scans of Poe’s 1849-06-28 correspondence to H. S. Root. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. The manuscript and scholarly checklist identify the recipient as H. S. Root; the supp...
View local scans of Poe’s undated (assigned January 1844) correspondence to Mr. Clark. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. Undated manuscript fragment, assigned to January 1844 by the chec...
View local scans of Poe’s 1843 (date uncertain) correspondence to John Hamilton Mackenzie. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. Surviving letter fragment with the opening and date missing. ...
View local scans of Poe’s 1841-07-07 correspondence to William Landor. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. William Landor is a pen name used by H. B. Wallace; the supplied lead incorrectly...
Read the 1845 Tales locally, with the historical text sections from this edition. This is a reading transcription, not a scan.
Read the 1840 volume II of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque locally, with the historical text sections from this edition. This is a reading transcription, not a scan.
Read the 1840 volume I of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque locally, with the historical text sections from this edition. This is a reading transcription, not a scan.
Read the 1843 The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe, No. 1 locally, with the historical text sections from this edition. This is a reading transcription, not a scan.
Read the 1845 The Raven and Other Poems locally, with the historical text sections from this edition. This is a reading transcription, not a scan.
Read volume II of Ingram’s 1880 biography, with locally hosted text and historical illustrations. Includes chapters XV–XXI, seven appendices and the index.
Read volume I of Ingram’s 1880 biography, with locally hosted text and historical illustrations. Includes chapters I–XIV, the preface and biographical data.
View local scans of Poe’s 1849-05 correspondence to Rufus W. Griswold. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. May 1849 is an assigned, uncertain date. A later annotation suggesting 1845 is no...
View local scans of Poe’s 1841-08-13 correspondence to Lea & Blanchard. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. Poe’s August 13 proposal to his publishers is distinct from their August 16 refu...
View local scans of Poe’s 1845-03-20 correspondence to Anna Cora Mowatt (probable recipient). Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. Only the closing, signature, address instruction and date ...
Read the 1839-09-11 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass in a locally preserved historical transcription. Both postscript passages and the quoted St. Louis Bulletin item are included. The electronic s...
Read the 1836-04-12 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to William Poe in a locally preserved historical transcription. The complete printed letter runs from the April 12, 1836 dateline through Poe’s signature. Maria Clemm’s ...
Read the 1836-02-20 letter from Carey & Lea to Edgar Allan Poe in a locally preserved historical transcription. The surviving letter-book text is printed in the historical appendix without a closing signature. The ref...
Read the 1835-11-29 letter from Carey & Lea to Edgar Allan Poe in a locally preserved historical transcription. The surviving letter-book text is printed in the historical appendix without a closing signature. Woodber...
The complete Baltimore correspondence column containing the Herald’s report of Poe’s death, with its adjoining local news retained. The source’s dateline reads October 8, 1839; that historical printing error is preser...
The complete historical newspaper report of the February 17, 1847 trial, published the following day. It reports a $225 verdict. Preserved from the report reproduced as document 80 in Sidney P. Moss’s Poe’s Major Cris...
The complete brief newspaper appeal quoted in the repository’s notes to Poe’s subsequent reply. Only the 1846 notice is preserved here; modern commentary is excluded. Statements about illness and hardship are the news...
Bisco’s complete short ownership notice, dated October 24 and printed on November 1, 1845. The masthead identified Poe as editor and proprietor beginning October 25. This record preserves the identified November 1 not...
Two complete contemporary reports of Poe’s November 21, 1843 lecture before the William Wirt Literary Institute. These are newspaper reactions, not a recovered transcript of the lecture itself. The opinions expressed ...
Read fifteen installments of the 1839–1840 puzzle and cryptography series, with locally preserved text, cipher tables and an illustration.
The contemporary notice of Virginia Eliza Poe’s death on January 30, 1847 and her planned funeral at Fordham. This record is dated by the February 1 newspaper publication. Authorship is uncertain; the attribution to P...
View local scans of Poe’s 1848-11-27 correspondence to T. L. Dunnell. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1845-10-26 correspondence to Sarah Josepha Buell Hale. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1844-05-29 correspondence to Sarah Josepha Buell Hale. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1848-11-03 correspondence to Sarah Helen Whitman. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. This is a surviving letter fragment. The scholarly checklist identifies Whit...
View local scans of Poe’s 1842-10-03 correspondence to Robert Hamilton. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1843-03-07 correspondence to Robert Carter. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1840-10-10 correspondence to Pliny Earle. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1846-01-12 correspondence to Philip Pendleton Cooke. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. Only the address-leaf or envelope fragment survives in this object; there...
View local scans of Poe’s 1849-06-16 correspondence to Nancy Locke Heywood Richmond ("Annie"). Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1836-04-12 correspondence to Lydia Howard (Huntley) Sigourney. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1836-03-10 correspondence to Lucian Minor. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1840-08-18 correspondence to Lucian Minor. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1841-09-18 correspondence to Lewis J. Cist. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1839-11-11 correspondence to Joseph Evans Snodgrass. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1849-01-31 correspondence to John Reuben Thompson. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1834-12-19 correspondence to John Pendleton Kennedy. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1835-09-04 correspondence to John Neal. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1829-12-29 correspondence to John Neal. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. The opening survives only in fragmentary form. These images preserve the surviving doc...
View local scans of Poe’s 1845-05-26 correspondence to John Keese. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1845-06-09 correspondence to John Keese. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1844-03-01 correspondence to John C. Myers, Samuel Williams or William Graeff Jr. (uncertain). Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. The recipient remains uncertain...
View local scans of Poe’s 1846-04-28 correspondence to Jerome A. Maubey. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1848-05-19 correspondence to Jane Ermina Locke. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1848-10 correspondence to Jane Ermina Locke. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1842-12-27 correspondence to James Russell Lowell. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1842-06 correspondence to James Herron. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. This is a surviving manuscript fragment, not an intact letter. It is a separate docume...
View local scans of Poe’s 1842-06-30 correspondence to James Herron. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1836-06-03 correspondence to James H. Causten. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1839-08-08 correspondence to John Beauchamp Jones. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1844-01-13 correspondence to Joel Barlow Sutherland. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. The repository object is a typewritten transcript of the historical lette...
View local scans of Poe’s 1845-03-10 correspondence to George Rex Graham. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1845-01-04 correspondence to George Bush. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1845-05-14 correspondence to Frederick William Thomas. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1841-07-04 correspondence to Frederick William Thomas. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1841-09-24 correspondence to Frederick William Thomas. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. The third source image contains later annotations by other people; thes...
View local scans of Poe’s 1836-06-07 correspondence to Fitz-Greene Halleck. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1843-08-26 correspondence to Ezra Holden. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1849-09-18 correspondence to Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. The recipient is also known as Sarah Anna Lewis or Stella Anna Lewis.
View local scans of Poe’s 1848-06-07 correspondence to Charles Astor Bristed. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
View local scans of Poe’s 1840-06-28 correspondence to Charles West Thomson. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF. The letter is written on a leaf of the Penn Magazine prospectus.
View local scans of Poe’s 1842-03-13 correspondence to Reverend John Nelson McJilton. Includes all supplied repository images and a local reading PDF.
Read Poe’s illustrated Autography series locally: both 1841 installments, the January 1842 appendix, original signature images and searchable OCR.
Read the 1841-05-19 letter from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Edgar Allan Poe in a locally preserved historical transcription. The historical source brings together the printed opening and two previously omitted parag...
Read the 1849-09-10 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah V. C. Ingram in a locally preserved historical transcription. The scholarly checklist identifies the recipient as Miss S. V. C. Ingram and assigns September 10,...
Read the 1840-06-17 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass in a locally preserved historical transcription. The checklist assigns this letter to June 17, 1840, correcting an older 1841 assignment. The e...
Read the 1840-01-20 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass in a locally preserved historical transcription. The historical edition incorrectly prints January 21. The record uses January 20, the date est...
Willis’s complete article proposing a refuge for ill writers and discussing Poe’s circumstances. The supplied lead calls it Hint to Brother Editors; this record uses the title of the identified historical printing. De...
Poe’s public reply in the 1846 dispute with Thomas Dunn English. The article carries a June 27 dateline and was printed on July 10. Its allegations are preserved as the author’s statements, not independently verified ...
Read the 1839 Conchologist’s First Book locally, with the complete scanned volume, shell illustrations, glossary, index and searchable machine OCR.
Read the 1848-12-23 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Nathan Bourne Crocker in a locally preserved historical transcription from Phillips’s 1926 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1848-12-23 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Maria Clemm in a locally preserved historical transcription from Phillips’s 1926 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1848-09-05 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman in a locally preserved historical transcription from Phillips’s 1926 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1845-10 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Frances Sargent Osgood in a locally preserved historical transcription from Phillips’s 1926 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1844-03-07 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to S. Williams and William Graeff Jr. in a locally preserved historical transcription from Phillips’s 1926 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1829-07-28 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Carey, Lea & Carey in a locally preserved historical transcription from Phillips’s 1926 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1827-03-25 letter from Edward G. Crump to Edgar Allan Poe in a locally preserved historical transcription from Phillips’s 1926 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Edgar Allan Poe to Neilson Poe — 1845-08-08. Locally hosted historical source scan with searchable machine OCR. The source scans resolve a damaged opening in the electronic transcription. The searchable excerpt begins...
Read the 1843-02-04 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to James Russell Lowell in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1842-12-25 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to James Russell Lowell in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1842-11-16 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to James Russell Lowell in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1842-08-27 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick William Thomas in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1841-09-19 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1841-01-17 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1840-12-31 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John P. Kennedy in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1839-12-19 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1839-12-12 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1831-05-06 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to William Gwynn in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1844-10-28 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to James Russell Lowell in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1844-09-27 letter from James Russell Lowell to Edgar Allan Poe in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Read the 1844-08-18 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to James Russell Lowell in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.