Edgar Allan Poe to Littleton W. Tazewell — 1836-07-16
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Edgar Allan Poe to Littleton W. Tazewell — 1836-07-16
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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 Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 11, 1923, part 7, page 3. This record preserves the electronic letter text, not a scan of that printed witness or the autograph. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify uncertain readings or revisions and are retained. Typography is simplified. The transcription has not been independently proofread word by word.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Littleton W. Tazewell — 1836-07-16
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 Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 11, 1923, part 7, page 3. This record preserves the electronic letter text, not a scan of that printed witness or the autograph. Catalogue identity and date checked against the repository heading. Source brackets and manuscript deletion marks, where present, identify uncertain readings or revisions and are retained. Typography is simplified. The transcription has not been independently proofread word by word.
Richmond. July 16, 1836.
Dr Sir,
At the request of Mr T. W. White, I take the liberty of soliciting, for publication in the Messenger, your Reasons for declining to transmit the instructions of the State Legislature to Mess. Tyler & Leigh.
If, as I imagine, these reasons enter into the Constitutional question itself, it would afford us the greatest pleasure to give them publicity, and we should take it as an especial favor if you could let us have them for this purpose.
Very respy Yr ob St Edgar A. Poe
Littleton W. Tazewell Esqr
“Edgar Allan Poe to Littleton W. Tazewell — 1836-07-16.” 1836-07-16. Edgar Allan Poe to Littleton W. Tazewell — 1836-07-16. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-ce98ce05a2df49108a800850d56981f2. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-ce98ce05a2df49108a800850d56981f2. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Edgar Allan Poe to Littleton W. Tazewell, 1836-07-16. Scholarly catalogue RCL-154. Early publication: Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 11, 1923, part 7, page 3.
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