Read the 1844-03-15 letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Cornelius Mathews locally. Poe asks how to send a parcel to Richard Henry Horne and acknowledges his earlier criticism of Mathews.
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 Some Edgar Allan Poe Letters in the Collection of W. K. Bixby, 1915, pages 22–23 (facsimile). This record preserves the electronic letter text, not a scan of that printed witness or the autograph. Poe asks how to send a parcel to Richard Henry Horne and acknowledges his earlier criticism of Mathews. Typography is simplified. The transcription has not been independently proofread word by word.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Cornelius Mathews — 1844-03-15
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1844-03-15
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Edgar Allan Poe
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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 Some Edgar Allan Poe Letters in the Collection of W. K. Bixby, 1915, pages 22–23 (facsimile). This record preserves the electronic letter text, not a scan of that printed witness or the autograph. Poe asks how to send a parcel to Richard Henry Horne and acknowledges his earlier criticism of Mathews. Typography is simplified. The transcription has not been independently proofread word by word.
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Edgar Allan Poe to Cornelius Mathews — 1844-03-15
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 Some Edgar Allan Poe Letters in the Collection of W. K. Bixby, 1915, pages 22–23 (facsimile). This record preserves the electronic letter text, not a scan of that printed witness or the autograph. Poe asks how to send a parcel to Richard Henry Horne and acknowledges his earlier criticism of Mathews. Typography is simplified. The transcription has not been independently proofread word by word.
Philadelphia March 15, 1844.
Dr Sir,
I have a letter and small parcel for Mr Horne, your friend, and the author of “Orion”. Would you be so kind as to furnish me with his address? — and to put me in the best way of forwarding the package securely?
I am reminded that I am your debtor for many little attentions, and embrace this opportunity of tendering you my especial thanks for your able pamphlet on the International Copy-Right Question, and for the admirable Adventures of Puffer Hopkins.
Could I imagine that, at any moment, you regarded a certain impudent and flippant critique as more than a matter to be laughed at , I would proffer you an apology on the spot. Since I scribbled the article in question, you yourself have given me fifty good reasons for being ashamed of it.
With the Highest Respect & Esteem
Yr Ob St Edgar A Poe
To Cornelius Mathews Esqre
“Edgar Allan Poe to Cornelius Mathews — 1844-03-15.” 1844-03-15. Edgar Allan Poe to Cornelius Mathews — 1844-03-15. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-ec9a82aac3e949089ea337ca9d950eb6. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-ec9a82aac3e949089ea337ca9d950eb6. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Edgar Allan Poe to Cornelius Mathews, 1844-03-15. Scholarly catalogue RCL-473. Early publication: Some Edgar Allan Poe Letters in the Collection of W. K. Bixby, 1915, pages 22–23 (facsimile).
Underlying nineteenth-century letter documented as published before 1931; public domain in the United States. Modern commentary and editorial correction glosses excluded.
