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Historical letter reading from George E. Woodberry, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe: Personal and Literary, volume II (1909). Catalogue identity RCL-168. 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 Allan B. Magruder — 1837-01-09
- Date
- 1837-01-09
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- Edgar Allan Poe (letter); George E. Woodberry (1909 editor)
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- Houghton Mifflin Company
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- Boston and New York
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- Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore (electronic transcription of Woodberry 1909)
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Local historical letter transcription — Woodberry 1909
Historical letter reading from George E. Woodberry, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe: Personal and Literary, volume II (1909). Catalogue identity RCL-168. 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 Allan B. Magruder — 1837-01-09
Historical letter reading from George E. Woodberry, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe: Personal and Literary, volume II (1909). Catalogue identity RCL-168. 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 MAGRUDER
RICHMOND, January 9, 1837.
MY DEAR SIR, — Your kind letter of Christmas eve was duly received — with the Essay.
I have read it with great pleasure and, I confess, some degree of surprise — never having suspected you of any literary designs. It shall certainly appear, entire, in the February number of the “Messenger.” Any supervision on my part, I perceive, would be altogether superfluous. I must apologize for not having made you a reply before. Ill health and a weight of various and harassing business will prove, I trust, a sufficient excuse. With sincere friendship and esteem, I am yours,&c.,
EDGAR A. POE.
ALLAN B. MAGRUDER, Esq.
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