1833-04-12

Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — 1833-04-12

Read Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — 1833-04-12 in the 1925 Stanard edition, with the edition’s printed transcription and manuscript facsimile preserved locally. Machine OCR is supplied for searching; consult the scan for uncertain words.

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Historical letter date: 1833-04-12. Source edition: Mary Newton Stanard, Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, 1925, letter thirty-one. This is repository machine OCR of the printed transcription; spelling and recognition errors remain. Consult the accompanying local scan excerpt and manuscript facsimile. No matching letter identity was found in the published Crypt inventory. This is a reproduction from a printed edition, not a newly acquired autograph manuscript.

Original publication: Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — 1833-04-12
Date: 1833-04-12
Credits: Poe (letter); Mary Newton Stanard (1925 editor)
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company
Published in: Philadelphia and London
Where to find it: 4
Reference collection: The Valentine (historical manuscript collection); Internet Archive (1925 edition scan)

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Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — 1833-04-12 Historical letter date: 1833-04-12. Source edition: Mary Newton Stanard, Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, 1925, letter thirty-one. This is repository machine OCR of the printed transcription; spelling and recognition errors remain. Consult the accompanying local scan excerpt and manuscript facsimile. [Source scan page 349] LETTER NUMBER THIRTY-ONE Baltimore April 12^ 1833 It has now been more than two years since you have assisted me, and more than three since you have spoken to me. I feel little hope that you will pay any regard to this letter, but ftill I cannot refrain from making one more attempt to interest you in my behalf. If you will only consider in what a situation I am placed you will surely pity me without friends, without any means, consequently of obtaining employment, I am perishing absolutely perishing for want of aid. And yet I am not idle nor addidted to any vice nor have I com- mitted any offence againft society which would render me deserving of so hard a fate. For God's sake pity me, and save me from destruction. E A Poe 3*3

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J. B. Lippincott Company. “Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — 1833-04-12.” 1833-04-12. Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — 1833-04-12. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-9e88ae88dcd447f7b8781060ac6c2f53. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-9e88ae88dcd447f7b8781060ac6c2f53. Accessed [date].

Catalogue citation: Mary Newton Stanard, editor, Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, 1925), letter thirty-one. Repository scan pages 349–352.

The source edition was published in 1925 and is public domain in the United States.

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