Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass — 1839-12-12
Read the 1839-12-12 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass in a locally preserved historical transcription from Woodberry’s 1909 edition. Source limitations are stated alongside the text.
Historical letter reading from George E. Woodberry, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe: Personal and Literary, volume I (1909). Catalogue identity RCL-223. The record heading uses the scholarly checklist date; the historical text retains the edition’s dateline and wording. This is a later printed transcription, not a manuscript facsimile or a modern critical text. Historical postscript and address material are retained where printed; source footnote callouts and modern website apparatus are omitted. The text has not been independently proofread word by word.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass — 1839-12-12
Date
1839-12-12
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Edgar Allan Poe (letter); George E. Woodberry (1909 editor)
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Houghton Mifflin Company
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Boston and New York
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore (electronic transcription of Woodberry 1909)
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Local historical letter transcription — Woodberry 1909
Historical letter reading from George E. Woodberry, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe: Personal and Literary, volume I (1909). Catalogue identity RCL-223. The record heading uses the scholarly checklist date; the historical text retains the edition’s dateline and wording. This is a later printed transcription, not a manuscript facsimile or a modern critical text. Historical postscript and address material are retained where printed; source footnote callouts and modern website apparatus are omitted. The text has not been independently proofread word by word.
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Local historical letter transcription — Woodberry 1909
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Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass — 1839-12-12
Historical letter reading from George E. Woodberry, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe: Personal and Literary, volume I (1909). Catalogue identity RCL-223. The record heading uses the scholarly checklist date; the historical text retains the edition’s dateline and wording. This is a later printed transcription, not a manuscript facsimile or a modern critical text. Historical postscript and address material are retained where printed; source footnote callouts and modern website apparatus are omitted. The text has not been independently proofread word by word.
[December 12, 1839.]
MY DEAR SIR, — I have the pleasure of sending you, through Messrs. Lea & Blanchard, a copy of my tales. Not knowing what better plan to pursue, I have addressed the package to you “at the office of the Baltimore American.” Will you get it? In the same package is a copy for Mr. Carey of the American, which I must beg you to deliver to him with my respects. I have not the pleasure of knowing him personally but entertain a high opinion of his talents. Please write his full name in his copy — “with the author's respects” — as I forget his praenomen.
I do not believe that Lea & B. have sent any of the books to Baltimore as yet — will you be kind enough to forward me any Bal. papers which may contain notices.
Very truly your friend,
EDGAR A. POE.
DR. J. EVANS SNODGRASS,
PHILADELPHIA, 12, 1839. [Postmarked December 13.]
Houghton Mifflin Company. “Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass — 1839-12-12.” 1839-12-12. Edgar Allan Poe to Joseph Evans Snodgrass — 1839-12-12. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-d68b436935794ba79c17b68113e343df. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-d68b436935794ba79c17b68113e343df. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: George E. Woodberry, The Life of Edgar Allan Poe: Personal and Literary, volume I (1909). w1909106.htm. Catalogue RCL-223.
Historical letter and 1909 printed edition are public domain in the United States. Modern editorial apparatus excluded.
