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 not accepted by the scholarly checklist. These manuscript images preserve Poe’s own text; the altered printed version and forged postscript in Griswold’s memoir are not adopted.
Local archival images of the 1849-05 correspondence from Edgar Allan Poe to Rufus W. Griswold. Catalogue identity RCL-796. Source: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Box 1, Folder 34. All 2 image(s) listed for this repository object are preserved at their supplied resolution. The reading PDF embeds the same JPEG bytes without cropping or altering the writing. Original JPEG downloads are also retained. Dates and correspondent identities follow the scholarly checklist and repository catalogue; assigned dates are not necessarily written on the document. May 1849 is an assigned, uncertain date. A later annotation suggesting 1845 is not accepted by the scholarly checklist. These manuscript images preserve Poe’s own text; the altered printed version and forged postscript in Griswold’s memoir are not adopted. No full text transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied in this record. Read the original images for wording, signatures, corrections and addresses.
Original publication
Letter to Rufus W. Griswold
Date
1849-05
Credits
Edgar Allan Poe (historical correspondence); Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin (source images)
Where to find it
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Reference collection
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Collection reference
MS-03283; Box 1, Folder 34
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Local archival images of the 1849-05 correspondence from Edgar Allan Poe to Rufus W. Griswold. Catalogue identity RCL-796. Source: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Box 1, Folder 34. All 2 image(s) listed for this repository object are preserved at their supplied resolution. The reading PDF embeds the same JPEG bytes without cropping or altering the writing. Original JPEG downloads are also retained. Dates and correspondent identities follow the scholarly checklist and repository catalogue; assigned dates are not necessarily written on the document. May 1849 is an assigned, uncertain date. A later annotation suggesting 1845 is not accepted by the scholarly checklist. These manuscript images preserve Poe’s own text; the altered printed version and forged postscript in Griswold’s memoir are not adopted. No full text transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied in this record. Read the original images for wording, signatures, corrections and addresses. Each embedded JPEG stream was verified byte-for-byte against the source image.
Local archival images of the 1849-05 correspondence from Edgar Allan Poe to Rufus W. Griswold. Catalogue identity RCL-796. Source: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Box 1, Folder 34. All 2 image(s) listed for this repository object are preserved at their supplied resolution. The reading PDF embeds the same JPEG bytes without cropping or altering the writing. Original JPEG downloads are also retained. Dates and correspondent identities follow the scholarly checklist and repository catalogue; assigned dates are not necessarily written on the document. May 1849 is an assigned, uncertain date. A later annotation suggesting 1845 is not accepted by the scholarly checklist. These manuscript images preserve Poe’s own text; the altered printed version and forged postscript in Griswold’s memoir are not adopted. No full text transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied in this record. Read the original images for wording, signatures, corrections and addresses.
Local archival images of the 1849-05 correspondence from Edgar Allan Poe to Rufus W. Griswold. Catalogue identity RCL-796. Source: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Box 1, Folder 34. All 2 image(s) listed for this repository object are preserved at their supplied resolution. The reading PDF embeds the same JPEG bytes without cropping or altering the writing. Original JPEG downloads are also retained. Dates and correspondent identities follow the scholarly checklist and repository catalogue; assigned dates are not necessarily written on the document. May 1849 is an assigned, uncertain date. A later annotation suggesting 1845 is not accepted by the scholarly checklist. These manuscript images preserve Poe’s own text; the altered printed version and forged postscript in Griswold’s memoir are not adopted. No full text transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied in this record. Read the original images for wording, signatures, corrections and addresses.
“Edgar Allan Poe to Rufus W. Griswold — 1849-05.” 1849-05. Letter to Rufus W. Griswold. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-082af956e16f4427a86474951500e547. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-082af956e16f4427a86474951500e547. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Edgar Allan Poe, Letter to Rufus W. Griswold, 1849 May. Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Box 1, Folder 34; catalogue RCL-796; digital object p15878coll102/2518.
Repository rights statement: No Copyright — United States (NoC-US 1.0). Source credited to the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
