Complete written face of the September 26, 1836 letter, preserved from RR Auction’s November 2012 sale, lot 642. Poe asks Charles Ellis for $50 in dry goods on four months’ credit. The single supplied image shows the full message, signature, recipient and date. The separately addressed integral leaf described by the auctioneer is not pictured and is not included. The supplied image is 850 × 850 pixels including margins; no higher-resolution master was supplied. The PDF embeds this JPEG unchanged. The reading text was transcribed directly from the image, with expanded superscripts and normalized line breaks. This is a digital reproduction, not possession or independent authentication of the original manuscript.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Ellis, Sr. — September 26, 1836
Date
1836-09-26
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Edgar Allan Poe; Charles Ellis, Sr.
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Complete written face of the September 26, 1836 letter, preserved from RR Auction’s November 2012 sale, lot 642. Poe asks Charles Ellis for $50 in dry goods on four months’ credit. The single supplied image shows the full message, signature, recipient and date. The separately addressed integral leaf described by the auctioneer is not pictured and is not included. The supplied image is 850 × 850 pixels including margins; no higher-resolution master was supplied. The PDF embeds this JPEG unchanged. The reading text was transcribed directly from the image, with expanded superscripts and normalized line breaks. This is a digital reproduction, not possession or independent authentication of the original manuscript.
Complete written face of the September 26, 1836 letter, preserved from RR Auction’s November 2012 sale, lot 642. Poe asks Charles Ellis for $50 in dry goods on four months’ credit. The single supplied image shows the full message, signature, recipient and date. The separately addressed integral leaf described by the auctioneer is not pictured and is not included. The supplied image is 850 × 850 pixels including margins; no higher-resolution master was supplied. The PDF embeds this JPEG unchanged. The reading text was transcribed directly from the image, with expanded superscripts and normalized line breaks. This is a digital reproduction, not possession or independent authentication of the original manuscript.
Reading text transcribed from the manuscript image
Complete written face of the September 26, 1836 letter, preserved from RR Auction’s November 2012 sale, lot 642. Poe asks Charles Ellis for $50 in dry goods on four months’ credit. The single supplied image shows the full message, signature, recipient and date. The separately addressed integral leaf described by the auctioneer is not pictured and is not included. The supplied image is 850 × 850 pixels including margins; no higher-resolution master was supplied. The PDF embeds this JPEG unchanged. The reading text was transcribed directly from the image, with expanded superscripts and normalized line breaks. This is a digital reproduction, not possession or independent authentication of the original manuscript.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Ellis, Sr. — September 26, 1836
Complete written face of the September 26, 1836 letter, preserved from RR Auction’s November 2012 sale, lot 642. Poe asks Charles Ellis for $50 in dry goods on four months’ credit. The single supplied image shows the full message, signature, recipient and date. The separately addressed integral leaf described by the auctioneer is not pictured and is not included. The supplied image is 850 × 850 pixels including margins; no higher-resolution master was supplied. The PDF embeds this JPEG unchanged. The reading text was transcribed directly from the image, with expanded superscripts and normalized line breaks. This is a digital reproduction, not possession or independent authentication of the original manuscript.
Dʳ Sir,
Do you think you could oblige me so far as to let me have the amount of $50 in dry goods, upon a credit of 4 months? If so, I would be greatly indebted to you, and my aunt will call down to choose such articles as she may wish.
Very resp’y
Edgar A. Poe
Mr Charles Ellis
Septem: 26, 1836
“Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Ellis, Sr. — September 26, 1836.” 1836-09-26. Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Ellis, Sr. — September 26, 1836. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-a29e3057b4374ed2995ff5b4cdab66a4. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-a29e3057b4374ed2995ff5b4cdab66a4. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Ellis, Sr., September 26, 1836. RCL-160b. RR Auction, auction 395, lot 642, November 14, 2012.
Poe’s 1836 text is public domain. This faithful manuscript reproduction is preserved as supplied; modern auction commentary is excluded.
