Edgar Allan Poe to George W. Eveleth — 1846-04-16

Edgar Allan Poe to George W. Eveleth — 1846-04-16 Historical printed letter from University of Virginia edition, 1924. Catalog identity RCL-622. The source page also contains the edition’s introductory context above the letter. The local PDF preserves the selected source pages unchanged. Searchable text is unreviewed repository OCR and retains recognition errors and historical editorial notes. This is a historical printed witness, not an autograph manuscript or a modern critical text. [Source scan page 14] I New York, April 16, 46. My dear Sir, You seem to take matters very easily and I really wonder at your patience under the circumstances. But the truth is I am in no degree to blame. Your letters,1 one and all, reached me in due course of mail — and I attended to them, as far as I could. The business, in fact, was none of mine but of the person to whom I transferred the Journal and in whose hands it perished.2 3 Of course, I feel no less in honor bound to refund you your money, and now do so, with many thanks for your promptness and courtesy. Very cordially yours, Edgar A. Poe. G. W. Eveleth, Esqr. re Broadway Journal 1. Eveleth had written December 21, 1845, January 5, and April 3, 1846: printed as Letters I, II, and III by T. O. Mabbott, March, 1922, Bulletin of the New York Public Library. This letter is printed substantially as it stands by Ingram, (Vol. II, p. 72). Commas are inserted in three places, omitted in one, and sub¬ stituted for the dash after “mail,” in Ingram. The MSS. in the Ingram collection, on a small slip, was separate from the other Eveleth letters and apparently was received at a different time. It is copied in a hand singularly like Poe’s. Eveleth considered his and Poe’s writing alike. 2. The last number of The Broadway Journal, Vol. II, No. 26, was dated January 3, 1846 (Woodberry, Vol. II, p. 427.) 3. T. H. Lane with whom Poe made an agreement December 3, 1845, transferring to him one-half interest in The Journal. Their office was [6]