Edgar Allan Poe to S. Williams and William Graeff Jr. — 1844-03-07
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.
Historical letter reading from Mary E. Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe: The Man, volume I (1926). Catalogue identity RCL-471. 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.
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Edgar Allan Poe to S. Williams and William Graeff Jr. — 1844-03-07
Date
1844-03-07
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Edgar Allan Poe (letter); Mary E. Phillips (1926 source author)
Publisher
The John C. Winston Company
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Chicago, Philadelphia and Toronto
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore (electronic transcription of Phillips 1926)
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Local historical letter transcription — Phillips 1926
Historical letter reading from Mary E. Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe: The Man, volume I (1926). Catalogue identity RCL-471. 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.
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Local historical letter transcription — Phillips 1926
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Edgar Allan Poe to S. Williams and William Graeff Jr. — 1844-03-07
Historical letter reading from Mary E. Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe: The Man, volume I (1926). Catalogue identity RCL-471. 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.
GENTLEMEN: I have just received your favor of the 5th, and will be pleased to deliver a Lecture on “American Poetry” in Reading, on Tuesday the 12th inst., if convenient. Please reply by return-mail and let me know at what place I shall meet the committee.
Very Resply Yr. Ob. Svt.
EDGAR A. POE.
The John C. Winston Company. “Edgar Allan Poe to S. Williams and William Graeff Jr. — 1844-03-07.” 1844-03-07. Edgar Allan Poe to S. Williams and William Graeff Jr. — 1844-03-07. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-1dd6bb8ff766495ba15f417adc63c343. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-1dd6bb8ff766495ba15f417adc63c343. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Mary E. Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe: The Man, volume I (1926). mep1cb05.htm. Catalogue RCL-471.
Historical letter and 1926 printed edition are public domain in the United States. Modern editorial apparatus excluded.
