Edgar Allan Poe to Messrs. Buckingham — 1833-05-04
Read the 1833-05-04 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Messrs. Buckingham locally. The manuscript is dated May 4 without a year; 1833 follows the scholarly checklist. The letter’s final postscript, “I am poor,” is retained. The enclosed full story Epimanes is not reproduced in this letter reading; source placeholders for that enclosure are omitted. This is not a complete facsimile of the four-page manuscript object.
Local historical letter reading from the Poe Society’s manuscript-text page, with modern correction glosses and website material excluded. The scholarly checklist documents an early printed witness in G. Blumenthal limited-edition facsimile, circa 1925, as documented by the scholarly checklist. This record preserves the electronic letter text, not a scan of that printed witness or the autograph. The manuscript is dated May 4 without a year; 1833 follows the scholarly checklist. The letter’s final postscript, “I am poor,” is retained. The enclosed full story Epimanes is not reproduced in this letter reading; source placeholders for that enclosure are omitted. This is not a complete facsimile of the four-page manuscript object. Typography is simplified. The transcription has not been independently proofread word by word.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Messrs. Buckingham — 1833-05-04
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1833-05-04
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore (historical letter transcription)
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Local historical letter reading from the Poe Society’s manuscript-text page, with modern correction glosses and website material excluded. The scholarly checklist documents an early printed witness in G. Blumenthal limited-edition facsimile, circa 1925, as documented by the scholarly checklist. This record preserves the electronic letter text, not a scan of that printed witness or the autograph. The manuscript is dated May 4 without a year; 1833 follows the scholarly checklist. The letter’s final postscript, “I am poor,” is retained. The enclosed full story Epimanes is not reproduced in this letter reading; source placeholders for that enclosure are omitted. This is not a complete facsimile of the four-page manuscript object. Typography is simplified. The transcription has not been independently proofread word by word.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Messrs. Buckingham — 1833-05-04
Local historical letter reading from the Poe Society’s manuscript-text page, with modern correction glosses and website material excluded. The scholarly checklist documents an early printed witness in G. Blumenthal limited-edition facsimile, circa 1925, as documented by the scholarly checklist. This record preserves the electronic letter text, not a scan of that printed witness or the autograph. The manuscript is dated May 4 without a year; 1833 follows the scholarly checklist. The letter’s final postscript, “I am poor,” is retained. The enclosed full story Epimanes is not reproduced in this letter reading; source placeholders for that enclosure are omitted. This is not a complete facsimile of the four-page manuscript object. Typography is simplified. The transcription has not been independently proofread word by word.
Baltimore May 4th
Gentlemen,
I send you an original tale in hope of your accepting it for the N. E. Magazine. It is one of a number of similar pieces which I have contemplated publishing under the title of ‘Eleven Tales of the Arabesque‘. They are supposed to be read at table by the eleven members of a literary club, and are followed by the remarks of the company upon each. These remarks are intended as a burlesque upon criticism. In the whole, originality more than any thing else has been attempted. I have said this much with a view of offering you the entire M.S. If you like the specimen which I have sent I will forward the rest at your suggestion — but if you decide upon publishing all the tales, it would not be proper to print the one I now send until it can be printed in its place with the others. It is however optional with you either to accept them all, or publish ‘Epimanes’ and reject the rest — if indeed you do not reject them altogether.
Very resply, Yr Obt St Edgar Allan Poe
Messrs Buckingham.
Please reply by letter as I have few opportunities of seeing your Magazine.
P.S. I am poor.
“Edgar Allan Poe to Messrs. Buckingham — 1833-05-04.” 1833-05-04. Edgar Allan Poe to Messrs. Buckingham — 1833-05-04. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-be25b7a1ed864ce09b2445ef98141536. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-be25b7a1ed864ce09b2445ef98141536. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Edgar Allan Poe to Messrs. Buckingham, 1833-05-04. Scholarly catalogue RCL-072. Early publication: G. Blumenthal limited-edition facsimile, circa 1925, as documented by the scholarly checklist.
Underlying nineteenth-century letter documented as published before 1931; public domain in the United States. Modern commentary and editorial correction glosses excluded.
