Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — 1829-10-30

Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — 1829-10-30 Historical letter date: 1829-10-30. Source edition: Mary Newton Stanard, Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, 1925, letter eighteen. This is repository machine OCR of the printed transcription; spelling and recognition errors remain. Consult the accompanying local scan excerpt and manuscript facsimile. [Source scan page 225] LETTER NUMBER EIGHTEEN Balt Oct: 30. 1829. Dear Pa I received your letter this evening and am grieved that I can give you no positive evidence of my industry & zeal as regards the appl; at W. Point: unless you will write to Mr Eaton himself who well remembers me & the earneStness of my application. But you are labouring under a miStake which I beg you to correct by reference to all my former letters I Stated that MF Eaton told me that an app* could be obtained by Sep^ provided there were a sufficient number rejected at the June examination & regretted that I had not made an earlier application that at all events with the Strong recommendations I had brought that I should have an appli at the next term which is in June next So far from having any doubts of my app! at that time, I am as certain of obtaining it as I am of being alive in If you find this Statement to be A corredt then condemn me otherwise acquit me of any intention to practise upon your good nature which I now feel myself to be above It is my intention upon the receipt of your letter to go again to Washington &, tho' contrary to the usual practice, I will get M* Eaton to give me my letter of 193 [Source scan page 226] i 9 4 EDGAR ALLAN POE LETTERS app! now it will consist of an order to repair to W. P. in June for examination &c & forward it to you that all doubts may be removed I will tell him why I want it at present & I think he will give it. I would have sent you the M. S. of my poems long ago for your approval, but since I have collected them they have been continually in the hands of some person or another & I have not had them in my own posses- sion since Carey & Lea took them I will send them to you at the first opportunity I am sorry that your letters to me have ftill with them a tone of anger as if my former errors were not forgiven if I knew how to regain your affeition God knows I would do any thing I could I am Yours affed:ionately Edgar A. Poe