Edgar Allan Poe to Lucian Minor — 1836-02-05

Edgar Allan Poe to Lucian Minor — 1836-02-05 Historical letter reading from George E. Woodberry, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe: Personal and Literary, volume II (1909). Catalogue identity RCL-117. The record heading uses the scholarly checklist date; the historical text retains the edition’s dateline and wording. This is a later printed transcription, not a manuscript facsimile or a modern critical text. Historical postscript and address material are retained where printed; source footnote callouts and modern website apparatus are omitted. The text has not been independently proofread word by word. POE TO MINOR RICHMOND, February 5, 1836. DEAR SIR, — At Mr. White's request I enclose you the sheets of the “Messenger.” In your article on “The Necessity of Selection in Reading,” you will perceive that the original heading is abbreviated to “Selection in Reading.” This was necessary in order to preserve uniformity in the captions throughout it being impossible to get in what you intended, and what, indeed, would have been most proper, except by making use of smaller type than what is used in other articles. Very resp y. and truly yours, EDGAR A. POE. It was thought better upon consideration to omit all in “Liberian Literature” at which offense could, by any possibility, be taken. We availed ourselves of your consent to do so. Address: LUCIAN MINOR, Esq., Charlotteville, Va. Endorsed: EDGAR A. POE. Recd. 16th Feb. 1836.