Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — 1830-11-06

Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — 1830-11-06 Historical letter date: 1830-11-06. Source edition: Mary Newton Stanard, Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, 1925, letter twenty-three. This is repository machine OCR of the printed transcription; spelling and recognition errors remain. Consult the accompanying local scan excerpt and manuscript facsimile. [Source scan page 277] LETTER NUMBER TWENTY-THREE Weft Point Nov r 6^ 1830 Dear Sir, I would have written you long before but did not know where my letters would reach you. I was greatly in hopes you would have come on to W. Point while you were in N. York, and was very much disapointed when I heard you had gone on home without letting me hear from you. I have a very excellent landing in my class in the firft se&ion in every thing and have great hopes of doing well. I have spent my time very pleasantly hitherto but the ftudy requisite is incessant, and the discipline exceedingly rigid I have seen Genj Scott here since I came, and he was very polite and attentive. I am very much pleased with Colonel Thayer, and indeed with every thing at the institution. If you would be so kind as to send me on a Box of Mathematical Instruments, and a copy of the Cambridge Mathematics, you would confer a great favor upon me and render my situation much more comfortable, or forward to Col : Thayer the means of obtaining them; for as I have no deposit, my more necessary expenditures have run me into debt. 243 [Source scan page 278] 244 EDGAR ALLAN POE LETTERS Please give my repeds to M rs A and to M r and M rs Jas Gait and Miss V. Mr Cunningham was also on here some time since, and M r . J. Chevalie and I was indeed very much in hopes that the beauty of the river would have tempted yourself and M r and M rs Jas Gait to have paid us a visit. Yours affectionately Edgar A Poe