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Edgar Allan Poe to James Russell Lowell — June 20, 1843 (letter) — reading text
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Philadelphia June 20, 1843.
My Dear Friend,
I owe you fifty apologies for not having written you before — but sickness and domestic affliction will
suffice for all.
I received your poem, which you undervalue, and which I think truly beautiful — as, in fact, I do all you
have ever written — but, alas! my Magazine scheme has exploded — or, at least, I have been deprived, through the
imbecility, or rather through the idiocy of my partner, of all means of prosecuting it for the present. Under better auspices I may
resume it next year.
What am I to do with the poem? I have handed it to Griswold, subject to your disposition.
My address is 234, North Seventh St above Spring Garden, West Side. Should you ever pay a visit to Philadelphia, you
will remember that there is no one in America whom I would rather hold by the hand than yourself.
With the sincerest friendship
I am yours. Edgar A Poe