Read the 1842-03-06 letter from C. Dickens to Edgar Allan Poe in a locally hosted transcription from Harrison’s 1902 edition. Historical dating and text limitations are stated alongside the reading.
Historical printed text from James A. Harrison, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, volume XVII (1902). Catalog identity: RCL-360. The heading uses the checklist date; the transcription retains the historical edition’s dateline and wording. The edition may contain older readings, omissions or date assignments. This is a printed transcription, not a manuscript facsimile. Modern website corrections in double brackets and navigation are omitted. Independent word-by-word proofreading has not been completed. The source citation is 107. No matching date/correspondent identity was found in the published archive; known ambiguous matches were excluded.
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DICKENS TO POE.
Date
1842-03-06
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C. Dickens (letter); James A. Harrison (1902 editor)
Publisher
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
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New York
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore (electronic transcription of the 1902 edition)
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Local historical letter transcription — Harrison 1902
Historical printed text from James A. Harrison, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, volume XVII (1902). Catalog identity: RCL-360. The heading uses the checklist date; the transcription retains the historical edition’s dateline and wording. The edition may contain older readings, omissions or date assignments. This is a printed transcription, not a manuscript facsimile. Modern website corrections in double brackets and navigation are omitted. Independent word-by-word proofreading has not been completed.
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Local historical letter transcription — Harrison 1902
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C. Dickens to Edgar Allan Poe — 1842-03-06
Historical printed text from James A. Harrison, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, volume XVII (1902). Catalog identity: RCL-360. The heading uses the checklist date; the transcription retains the historical edition’s dateline and wording. The edition may contain older readings, omissions or date assignments. This is a printed transcription, not a manuscript facsimile. Modern website corrections in double brackets and navigation are omitted. Independent word-by-word proofreading has not been completed.
DICKENS TO POE.
[Century Magazine.]
UNITED STATES HOTEL, March 6, 1842.
MY DEAR SIR, — I shall be very glad to see you whenever you will do me the favor to call. I think I am more likely to be in the way between half-past eleven and twelve, than at any other time. I have glanced over the books you have been so kind as to send me, and more particularly at the papers to which you called my attention. I have the greater pleasure in expressing my desire to see you on this account. Apropos of the “construction” of “Caleb Williams,” do you know that Godwin wrote it backwards, — the last volume first, — and that when he had produced the hunting down of Caleb, and the catastrophe, he waited for months, casting about for a means of accounting for what he had done?
Faithfully yours always, CHARLES DICKENS.
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. “C. Dickens to Edgar Allan Poe — 1842-03-06.” 1842-03-06. DICKENS TO POE.. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-f0d4c431745b469abdbd6d97047c20d9. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-f0d4c431745b469abdbd6d97047c20d9. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: James A. Harrison, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, volume XVII (1902), jah17l05.htm, printed page anchor pg0107. Correspondence identifier RCL-360.
Historical letter text and 1902 printed edition are public domain in the United States. Modern navigation, website notes and the 2008 critical edition are not included.
