Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman — 1848-09-05
Read the 1848-09-05 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman in a locally preserved historical transcription from Phillips’s 1926 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Historical letter reading from Mary E. Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe: The Man, volume II (1926). Catalogue identity RCL-720. 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. The letter is signed Edward S. T. Grey, identified by the scholarly checklist as Poe’s pseudonym.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman — 1848-09-05
Date
1848-09-05
Credits
Edgar Allan Poe (letter); Mary E. Phillips (1926 source author)
Publisher
The John C. Winston Company
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Chicago, Philadelphia and Toronto
Reference collection
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore (electronic transcription of Phillips 1926)
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Local historical letter transcription — Phillips 1926
Historical letter reading from Mary E. Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe: The Man, volume II (1926). Catalogue identity RCL-720. 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. The letter is signed Edward S. T. Grey, identified by the scholarly checklist as Poe’s pseudonym.
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Local historical letter transcription — Phillips 1926
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Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman — 1848-09-05
Historical letter reading from Mary E. Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe: The Man, volume II (1926). Catalogue identity RCL-720. 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. The letter is signed Edward S. T. Grey, identified by the scholarly checklist as Poe’s pseudonym.
DEAR MADAM, — Being engaged in making a collection of autographs of the most distinguished American authors, I am, of course, anxious to procure your own, and if you would so far honor me as to reply, however briefly to this note, I would take it as a very great favor.
Res‘y yr. mo. ob. st,
EDWARD S. T. GREY.
Mrs. SARAH HELEN WHITMAN.
The John C. Winston Company. “Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman — 1848-09-05.” 1848-09-05. Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman — 1848-09-05. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-9a4c178caa6148e69c1ea4e26386fa1b. http://127.0.0.1:58097/evidence/LED-2026-9a4c178caa6148e69c1ea4e26386fa1b. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Mary E. Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe: The Man, volume II (1926). mep2ch07.htm. Catalogue RCL-720.
Historical letter and 1926 printed edition are public domain in the United States. Modern editorial apparatus excluded.
