1839-10-12

Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving, October 12, 1839

Poe asks Irving for an opinion of William Wilson and permission to quote his favorable response in connection with Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.

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Two manuscript images are preserved, credited to The Poe Museum by the source article. Fold damage and faint words are marked in the reading edition. The linked modern article by Chelsea Jackson reports the museum’s acquisition of this letter from collector Susan Jaffe Tane; this record supplies an original summary and citation, not a reproduction of the full article.

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Original downloaded JPEG bytes retained; a page-image PDF assembled without cropping and an AI-checked reading edition supplied. Two manuscript images are preserved, credited to The Poe Museum by the source article. Fold damage and faint words are marked in the reading edition. The linked modern article by Chelsea Jackson reports the museum’s acquisition of this letter from collector Susan Jaffe Tane; this record supplies an original summary and citation, not a reproduction of the full article.

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Original downloaded JPEG bytes retained; a page-image PDF assembled without cropping and an AI-checked reading edition supplied. Two manuscript images are preserved, credited to The Poe Museum by the source article. Fold damage and faint words are marked in the reading edition. The linked modern article by Chelsea Jackson reports the museum’s acquisition of this letter from collector Susan Jaffe Tane; this record supplies an original summary and citation, not a reproduction of the full article.

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Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving, October 12, 1839. The Poe Museum; scans reproduced by Tucson.com / Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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