Read local scans of John Tomlin’s October 16, 1839 letter to Edgar Allan Poe, submitting Theodoric of the Amali for criticism. Both repository images and a local reading PDF are included.
John Tomlin writes from Jackson, Tennessee, submitting Theodoric of the Amali for Poe’s criticism. This is an incoming letter to Poe. All two images supplied for Boston Public Library object commonwealth:6h445495f are preserved at full supplied resolution. The reading PDF embeds the unchanged JPEG bytes, and both originals are downloadable locally. The manuscript story mentioned in the letter is not included in this two-image object. No full handwriting transcription or OCR is supplied.
Original publication
John Tomlin, Jackson, TN., letter,16 October 1839
Date
1839-10-16
Credits
John Tomlin (letter); Boston Public Library / Digital Commonwealth (source images)
Where to find it
2 images
Reference collection
Boston Public Library, Rare Books Department
Collection reference
Rufus W. Griswold Papers, Box 17, Ms. Gris. 1086
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John Tomlin writes from Jackson, Tennessee, submitting Theodoric of the Amali for Poe’s criticism. This is an incoming letter to Poe. All two images supplied for Boston Public Library object commonwealth:6h445495f are preserved at full supplied resolution. The reading PDF embeds the unchanged JPEG bytes, and both originals are downloadable locally. The manuscript story mentioned in the letter is not included in this two-image object. No full handwriting transcription or OCR is supplied. Embedded JPEGs were checked byte for byte against the originals.
John Tomlin writes from Jackson, Tennessee, submitting Theodoric of the Amali for Poe’s criticism. This is an incoming letter to Poe. All two images supplied for Boston Public Library object commonwealth:6h445495f are preserved at full supplied resolution. The reading PDF embeds the unchanged JPEG bytes, and both originals are downloadable locally. The manuscript story mentioned in the letter is not included in this two-image object. No full handwriting transcription or OCR is supplied.
John Tomlin writes from Jackson, Tennessee, submitting Theodoric of the Amali for Poe’s criticism. This is an incoming letter to Poe. All two images supplied for Boston Public Library object commonwealth:6h445495f are preserved at full supplied resolution. The reading PDF embeds the unchanged JPEG bytes, and both originals are downloadable locally. The manuscript story mentioned in the letter is not included in this two-image object. No full handwriting transcription or OCR is supplied.
“John Tomlin to Edgar Allan Poe — October 16, 1839.” 1839-10-16. John Tomlin, Jackson, TN., letter,16 October 1839. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-9f6b9cfc82d44a84bc7c81a2e7447acf. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-9f6b9cfc82d44a84bc7c81a2e7447acf. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: John Tomlin to Edgar Allan Poe, October 16, 1839. Boston Public Library, Rare Books Department, Rufus W. Griswold Papers, Box 17, Ms. Gris. 1086; Digital Commonwealth commonwealth:6h445495f; scholarly catalogue RCL-210.
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