Edgar Allan Poe to Maria and Virginia Clemm — August 29, 1835
Read local scans of Poe’s August 29, 1835 letter to Maria and Virginia Clemm about joining him in Richmond, with the damaged original and a historical handwritten copy preserved together.
Written from Richmond, this letter asks Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia to join Poe there, describes his income and plans for a home, and includes his proposal to Virginia. The surviving autograph is damaged. This record preserves all four repository images of the original (pcpl002), including its address panel, alongside all four images of a historical handwritten copy (scpc011). The copy bears an annotation attributing it to V. C. Poe, believed by the repository to mean Virginia Clemm Poe; the annotation’s date and the copyist’s identity are not certain. The two witnesses remain separately labelled. The year 1835 is supplied from the documented chronology. Local PDFs embed the exact supplied JPEG images without reconstruction or recompression. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied.
Original publication
Letter: Edgar Allan Poe to Mrs. William Clemm [Maria Clemm] and her daughter Virginia, August 29, [1835]
Date
1835-08-29
Credits
Edgar Allan Poe (letter); copy attributed by the repository to V. C. Poe, possibly Virginia Clemm Poe; Enoch Pratt Free Library / Digital Maryland (images)
Where to find it
4 original images and 4 historical-copy images
Reference collection
Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center, Special Collections
Collection reference
Edgar Allan Poe Collection; pcpl002 (autograph), scpc011 (historical copy)
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Written from Richmond, this letter asks Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia to join Poe there, describes his income and plans for a home, and includes his proposal to Virginia. The surviving autograph is damaged. This record preserves all four repository images of the original (pcpl002), including its address panel, alongside all four images of a historical handwritten copy (scpc011). The copy bears an annotation attributing it to V. C. Poe, believed by the repository to mean Virginia Clemm Poe; the annotation’s date and the copyist’s identity are not certain. The two witnesses remain separately labelled. The year 1835 is supplied from the documented chronology. Local PDFs embed the exact supplied JPEG images without reconstruction or recompression. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied.
Written from Richmond, this letter asks Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia to join Poe there, describes his income and plans for a home, and includes his proposal to Virginia. The surviving autograph is damaged. This record preserves all four repository images of the original (pcpl002), including its address panel, alongside all four images of a historical handwritten copy (scpc011). The copy bears an annotation attributing it to V. C. Poe, believed by the repository to mean Virginia Clemm Poe; the annotation’s date and the copyist’s identity are not certain. The two witnesses remain separately labelled. The year 1835 is supplied from the documented chronology. Local PDFs embed the exact supplied JPEG images without reconstruction or recompression. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied.
Written from Richmond, this letter asks Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia to join Poe there, describes his income and plans for a home, and includes his proposal to Virginia. The surviving autograph is damaged. This record preserves all four repository images of the original (pcpl002), including its address panel, alongside all four images of a historical handwritten copy (scpc011). The copy bears an annotation attributing it to V. C. Poe, believed by the repository to mean Virginia Clemm Poe; the annotation’s date and the copyist’s identity are not certain. The two witnesses remain separately labelled. The year 1835 is supplied from the documented chronology. Local PDFs embed the exact supplied JPEG images without reconstruction or recompression. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied.
Written from Richmond, this letter asks Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia to join Poe there, describes his income and plans for a home, and includes his proposal to Virginia. The surviving autograph is damaged. This record preserves all four repository images of the original (pcpl002), including its address panel, alongside all four images of a historical handwritten copy (scpc011). The copy bears an annotation attributing it to V. C. Poe, believed by the repository to mean Virginia Clemm Poe; the annotation’s date and the copyist’s identity are not certain. The two witnesses remain separately labelled. The year 1835 is supplied from the documented chronology. Local PDFs embed the exact supplied JPEG images without reconstruction or recompression. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied.
Written from Richmond, this letter asks Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia to join Poe there, describes his income and plans for a home, and includes his proposal to Virginia. The surviving autograph is damaged. This record preserves all four repository images of the original (pcpl002), including its address panel, alongside all four images of a historical handwritten copy (scpc011). The copy bears an annotation attributing it to V. C. Poe, believed by the repository to mean Virginia Clemm Poe; the annotation’s date and the copyist’s identity are not certain. The two witnesses remain separately labelled. The year 1835 is supplied from the documented chronology. Local PDFs embed the exact supplied JPEG images without reconstruction or recompression. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied.
Written from Richmond, this letter asks Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia to join Poe there, describes his income and plans for a home, and includes his proposal to Virginia. The surviving autograph is damaged. This record preserves all four repository images of the original (pcpl002), including its address panel, alongside all four images of a historical handwritten copy (scpc011). The copy bears an annotation attributing it to V. C. Poe, believed by the repository to mean Virginia Clemm Poe; the annotation’s date and the copyist’s identity are not certain. The two witnesses remain separately labelled. The year 1835 is supplied from the documented chronology. Local PDFs embed the exact supplied JPEG images without reconstruction or recompression. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied.
Written from Richmond, this letter asks Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia to join Poe there, describes his income and plans for a home, and includes his proposal to Virginia. The surviving autograph is damaged. This record preserves all four repository images of the original (pcpl002), including its address panel, alongside all four images of a historical handwritten copy (scpc011). The copy bears an annotation attributing it to V. C. Poe, believed by the repository to mean Virginia Clemm Poe; the annotation’s date and the copyist’s identity are not certain. The two witnesses remain separately labelled. The year 1835 is supplied from the documented chronology. Local PDFs embed the exact supplied JPEG images without reconstruction or recompression. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied.
Written from Richmond, this letter asks Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia to join Poe there, describes his income and plans for a home, and includes his proposal to Virginia. The surviving autograph is damaged. This record preserves all four repository images of the original (pcpl002), including its address panel, alongside all four images of a historical handwritten copy (scpc011). The copy bears an annotation attributing it to V. C. Poe, believed by the repository to mean Virginia Clemm Poe; the annotation’s date and the copyist’s identity are not certain. The two witnesses remain separately labelled. The year 1835 is supplied from the documented chronology. Local PDFs embed the exact supplied JPEG images without reconstruction or recompression. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied.
Written from Richmond, this letter asks Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia to join Poe there, describes his income and plans for a home, and includes his proposal to Virginia. The surviving autograph is damaged. This record preserves all four repository images of the original (pcpl002), including its address panel, alongside all four images of a historical handwritten copy (scpc011). The copy bears an annotation attributing it to V. C. Poe, believed by the repository to mean Virginia Clemm Poe; the annotation’s date and the copyist’s identity are not certain. The two witnesses remain separately labelled. The year 1835 is supplied from the documented chronology. Local PDFs embed the exact supplied JPEG images without reconstruction or recompression. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied.
Written from Richmond, this letter asks Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia to join Poe there, describes his income and plans for a home, and includes his proposal to Virginia. The surviving autograph is damaged. This record preserves all four repository images of the original (pcpl002), including its address panel, alongside all four images of a historical handwritten copy (scpc011). The copy bears an annotation attributing it to V. C. Poe, believed by the repository to mean Virginia Clemm Poe; the annotation’s date and the copyist’s identity are not certain. The two witnesses remain separately labelled. The year 1835 is supplied from the documented chronology. Local PDFs embed the exact supplied JPEG images without reconstruction or recompression. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is supplied.
“Edgar Allan Poe to Maria and Virginia Clemm — August 29, 1835.” 1835-08-29. Letter: Edgar Allan Poe to Mrs. William Clemm [Maria Clemm] and her daughter Virginia, August 29, [1835]. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-d6c3b51bc1a949eca60234f2816714e8. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-d6c3b51bc1a949eca60234f2816714e8. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Edgar Allan Poe to Maria and Virginia Clemm, August 29, [1835]. Enoch Pratt Free Library, Edgar Allan Poe Collection, pcpl002; accompanying historical copy scpc011. Scholarly catalogue RCL-097.
Enoch Pratt Free Library / Digital Maryland identifies both objects as No Copyright — United States (NoC-US 1.0). The library’s Rights & Permissions policy states that permission is not required to publish public-domain materials; specific item attribution is requested and retained. Generic access notices also appear in the catalogue. No modern editorial description is reproduced as a reading text.
