Edgar Allan Poe to James Russell Lowell — 1842-11-16

Edgar Allan Poe to James Russell Lowell — 1842-11-16 Historical letter reading from George E. Woodberry, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe: Personal and Literary, volume I (1909). Catalogue identity RCL-398. 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. DR SIR, — Learning your design of commencing a Magazine in Boston, upon the first of January next, I take the liberty of asking whether some arrangement might not be made by which I should become a regular contributor. I should be glad to furnish a short article each month — of such character as might be suggested by yourself — and upon such terms as you could afford “in the beginning.” That your success will be marked and permanent I will not doubt. At all events, I most sincerely wish you well: for no man in America has excited in me so much admiration — and, therefore, none so much of respect and esteem — as the author of “Rosaline.” May I hope to hear from you at your leisure? In the meantime, believe me Most cordially yours, EDGAR ALLAN POE. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Esqre. PHILADELPHIA, November, 16, 1842.