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.
Complete letter text as presented in the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore’s manuscript-based transcription. This local file is a text-only reading copy; no photograph of the original manuscript has been acquired or independently inspected. The source identifies the manuscript at Massachusetts Historical Society. Paragraphs and words were compared with the source transcription; spacing, line breaks and superscript styling are simplified. Modern commentary and explanatory apparatus are omitted.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Jesse E. Dow — June 24, 1839
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1839-06-24
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Edgar Allan Poe to Jesse E. Dow — June 24, 1839
Complete letter text as presented in the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore’s manuscript-based transcription. This local file is a text-only reading copy; no photograph of the original manuscript has been acquired or independently inspected. The source identifies the manuscript at Massachusetts Historical Society. Paragraphs and words were compared with the source transcription; spacing, line breaks and superscript styling are simplified. Modern commentary and explanatory apparatus are omitted.
Phil. June 24th/39
My Dear Sir,
Will you be kind enough to send us some more of Old Ironsides as soon as you can — immediately if possible — as the compositors are waiting for it. What they have (“The Levanter”) will not make enough for an article.
Very truly your friend
E A Poe
J. E. Dow Esqr
“Edgar Allan Poe to Jesse E. Dow — June 24, 1839.” 1839-06-24. Edgar Allan Poe to Jesse E. Dow — June 24, 1839. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-384faa027329404d9a5d6fd15f8d3b38. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-384faa027329404d9a5d6fd15f8d3b38. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Edgar Allan Poe to Jesse E. Dow, 1839-06-24. Manuscript-based transcription supplied by the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, p3906240.htm. RCL-186a.
Underlying nineteenth-century letter text by Edgar Allan Poe (died 1849); modern scholarly commentary, editorial notes and page design are excluded. This is a local reading copy of Poe’s words, with attribution to the supplying transcription.
