Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah J. Hale — 1844-05-31

Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah J. Hale — 1844-05-31 Local historical letter reading from the Poe Society’s manuscript-text page, with modern correction glosses and website material excluded. The scholarly checklist documents an early printed witness in New York Times, January 28, 1917, page 14; Anderson sale catalogue, January 25, 1917, frontispiece facsimile. This record preserves the electronic letter text, not a scan of that printed witness or the autograph. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify uncertain readings or revisions and are retained. Typography is simplified. The transcription has not been independently proofread word by word. New-York. May 31rst 44. My Dear Madam, I hasten to reply to your kind and very satisfactory letter, and to say that, if you will be so good as to keep open for me the ten pages of which you speak, I will forward you, in 2 or 3 days, an article which will about occupy that space, and which I will endeavour to adapt to the character of “The Opal.” The price you mention — 50 cts per page — will be amply sufficient; and I am exceedingly anxious to be ranked in your list of contributors. Should you see Mr Godey very soon, will you oblige me by saying that I will write him in a few days, and forward him a package? With sincere respect. Yr Ob. St Edgar A Poe Mrs Sarah J. Hale.