Edgar Allan Poe to Carey & Hart — January 21, 1836
Poe requests a review copy of Bulwer’s Rienzi for the Southern Literary Messenger. Read the complete letter with locally preserved scans and checked text.
Complete letter text as printed in The Princeton University Library Chronicle (1949), volume 10, number 2, pages 91–92. The local images and PDF are clearly identified crops of the letter areas in that historical printing, not manuscript photographs; surrounding commentary and unrelated material are omitted. The transcription was checked against the visible printing. Line breaks, superscripts and typographic emphasis are simplified. Poe wrote 1835 in the dateline; the letter is dated January 21, 1836 by the scholarly record. The bracketed correction [1836] belongs to the printed edition. The word “it,” printed above the line after “review,” is placed inline in the reading.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Carey & Hart — January 21, 1836
Date
1836-01-21
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Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher
Friends of the Princeton Library
Published in
Richmond
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91–92
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Complete letter text as printed in The Princeton University Library Chronicle (1949), volume 10, number 2, pages 91–92. The local images and PDF are clearly identified crops of the letter areas in that historical printing, not manuscript photographs; surrounding commentary and unrelated material are omitted. The transcription was checked against the visible printing. Line breaks, superscripts and typographic emphasis are simplified. Poe wrote 1835 in the dateline; the letter is dated January 21, 1836 by the scholarly record. The bracketed correction [1836] belongs to the printed edition. The word “it,” printed above the line after “review,” is placed inline in the reading.
Complete letter text as printed in The Princeton University Library Chronicle (1949), volume 10, number 2, pages 91–92. The local images and PDF are clearly identified crops of the letter areas in that historical printing, not manuscript photographs; surrounding commentary and unrelated material are omitted. The transcription was checked against the visible printing. Line breaks, superscripts and typographic emphasis are simplified. Poe wrote 1835 in the dateline; the letter is dated January 21, 1836 by the scholarly record. The bracketed correction [1836] belongs to the printed edition. The word “it,” printed above the line after “review,” is placed inline in the reading.
Complete letter text as printed in The Princeton University Library Chronicle (1949), volume 10, number 2, pages 91–92. The local images and PDF are clearly identified crops of the letter areas in that historical printing, not manuscript photographs; surrounding commentary and unrelated material are omitted. The transcription was checked against the visible printing. Line breaks, superscripts and typographic emphasis are simplified. Poe wrote 1835 in the dateline; the letter is dated January 21, 1836 by the scholarly record. The bracketed correction [1836] belongs to the printed edition. The word “it,” printed above the line after “review,” is placed inline in the reading.
Complete letter text as printed in The Princeton University Library Chronicle (1949), volume 10, number 2, pages 91–92. The local images and PDF are clearly identified crops of the letter areas in that historical printing, not manuscript photographs; surrounding commentary and unrelated material are omitted. The transcription was checked against the visible printing. Line breaks, superscripts and typographic emphasis are simplified. Poe wrote 1835 in the dateline; the letter is dated January 21, 1836 by the scholarly record. The bracketed correction [1836] belongs to the printed edition. The word “it,” printed above the line after “review,” is placed inline in the reading.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Carey & Hart — January 21, 1836
Complete letter text as printed in The Princeton University Library Chronicle (1949), volume 10, number 2, pages 91–92. The local images and PDF are clearly identified crops of the letter areas in that historical printing, not manuscript photographs; surrounding commentary and unrelated material are omitted. The transcription was checked against the visible printing. Line breaks, superscripts and typographic emphasis are simplified. Poe wrote 1835 in the dateline; the letter is dated January 21, 1836 by the scholarly record. The bracketed correction [1836] belongs to the printed edition. The word “it,” printed above the line after “review,” is placed inline in the reading.
Richmond
Jany: 21 1835 [1836]
Messrs. Carey & Hart,
Gentlemen,
Could you oblige the Editor of the Southern Literary Messenger by sending him on a copy of Rienzi (Bulwer’s novel) by mail. We wish to review it in the next number of the Magazine, and otherwise will not obtain it in time. If you can oblige us so far as to send the volume, please envelop it carefully, and mark on it the number of printed sheets it contains.
Very respy.
Yr. Ob. St.
Edgar A. Poe
Friends of the Princeton Library. “Edgar Allan Poe to Carey & Hart — January 21, 1836.” 1836-01-21. Edgar Allan Poe to Carey & Hart — January 21, 1836. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-8d513f514a0743dda404d7d53a6dc5e0. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-8d513f514a0743dda404d7d53a6dc5e0. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Edgar Allan Poe to Carey & Hart, 1836-01-21. The Princeton University Library Chronicle 10, no. 2 (1949), pp. 91–92. RCL-113.
Historical letter text by Edgar Allan Poe (died 1849), from the 1949 U.S. printing. No matching renewal was found in the relevant Copyright Office periodical/contribution renewal records and NYPL’s derived renewal dataset. Letter areas only; surrounding scholarly commentary excluded.
