Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas Prentice Kettell — June 6, 1846
Poe asks Kettell to replace a Marginalia passage about Richard Adams Locke and return the manuscript through Mrs. Clemm. Read the locally hosted letter transcription.
Complete letter text as presented in the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore’s manuscript-based transcription. This local file is a text-only reading copy; no photograph of the original manuscript has been acquired or independently inspected. The source identifies the manuscript at Poe Museum / Poe Foundation, Richmond. Paragraphs and words were compared with the source transcription; spacing, line breaks and superscript styling are simplified. Modern commentary and explanatory apparatus are omitted. The manuscript gives June 6 without a year; 1846 is the scholarly dating, supported by Kettell’s editorial role. The address side is not reproduced.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas Prentice Kettell — June 6, 1846
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1846-06-06
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Edgar Allan Poe; Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore (source transcription)
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Poe Museum / Poe Foundation, Richmond
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Complete letter text as presented in the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore’s manuscript-based transcription. This local file is a text-only reading copy; no photograph of the original manuscript has been acquired or independently inspected. The source identifies the manuscript at Poe Museum / Poe Foundation, Richmond. Paragraphs and words were compared with the source transcription; spacing, line breaks and superscript styling are simplified. Modern commentary and explanatory apparatus are omitted. The manuscript gives June 6 without a year; 1846 is the scholarly dating, supported by Kettell’s editorial role. The address side is not reproduced.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas Prentice Kettell — June 6, 1846
Complete letter text as presented in the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore’s manuscript-based transcription. This local file is a text-only reading copy; no photograph of the original manuscript has been acquired or independently inspected. The source identifies the manuscript at Poe Museum / Poe Foundation, Richmond. Paragraphs and words were compared with the source transcription; spacing, line breaks and superscript styling are simplified. Modern commentary and explanatory apparatus are omitted. The manuscript gives June 6 without a year; 1846 is the scholarly dating, supported by Kettell’s editorial role. The address side is not reproduced.
Dr Sir,
Will you be so kind as to substitute the “Marginalia” now sent for the portion of that which you have, referring to R. A. Locke? — and please give the latter to the bearer (Mrs C.) or, in the event of her not seeing you, leave the M.S. at the office so that she may get it hereafter.
Truly yours
Edgar A Poe
Mr Kettell
June 6
“Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas Prentice Kettell — June 6, 1846.” 1846-06-06. Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas Prentice Kettell — June 6, 1846. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-dcc3db11f46c452292796e3c66531309. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-dcc3db11f46c452292796e3c66531309. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas Prentice Kettell, 1846-06-06. Manuscript-based transcription supplied by the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, p4606060.htm. RCL-633a.
Underlying nineteenth-century letter text by Edgar Allan Poe (died 1849); modern scholarly commentary, editorial notes and page design are excluded. This is a local reading copy of Poe’s words, with attribution to the supplying transcription.
