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George W. Eveleth to Edgar Allan Poe — 1846-04-03
Complete letter III from the 1922 historical printed edition. This is a historical transcription, not a scan of the autograph. All pages containing this letter are preserved unchanged; parts of adjacent letters or introductory material remain visible under their own headings. The searchable text is limited to this letter and its printed address/endorsement. Separate endnotes elsewhere in the source volume are not included. Machine OCR has not been fully proofread and may misread punctuation, dates, names or superscripts; consult the preserved scan for exact wording.
Of course, sir, I am not to believe that the three letters which have been
addressed to you concerning the Broadway Journal have all failed to reach you.
I do not believe but that you have received some of them — one of them, at
least. And if this is the case, why have you not taken some notice of them?
If you did not get the letter in which were enclosed three dollars for your paper,
why have you not let me know it after having learned that I sent the money
to you? Certainly it was your duty so to do, if not to satisfy me, at least, to
clear yourself from the charge of knavery. You are liable to such a charge
as the case now stands; for, as it is hardly possible that every one of the letters
which have been sent to you (two by myself, and one by our post master) mis-
carried, and as I have not heard a word from you, so it is probable that you
have received them all, the money with them, and no thanks to me for it. The
Editor of the Philadelphia Saturday Post, speaking of plagiarisms (another
kind of swindling) sais ‘Mr. Poe late of the Broadway Journal’ ! so by this I sup-
pose you are not connected with the paper now. Well, am I going to receive my
money back again, or any thing in recompense? It is not the money that I care
about so much, although three dollars is something to lose. I was in hopes that
Thad found the opportunity of becoming a permanent subscriber to a publica-
tion conducted by my favorite, Edgar A. Poe Esq. It is for this that I care
principally. It may be yet that I shall be thus favored. I have not yet ceased
to expect something from you. I have thought it might be that you would
connect yourself with some magazine and might give it a toss hither to us. Be
assured it would be most welcome. Something I demand of you, sir, for those
three dollars of mine in your possession, something in the same coin — that
is, cash — or something in the shape of literature, or something in the shape
of a notification to me that you are a poor devil, and that you beg the money
of me to keep you from distress — and that something, whichever it is, with
tolerable speediness.
“And the raven, ever flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door”? —
Excellent, of course; but I have seen none of it except what there is in Graham’s
Magazine for April. I wish I had the whole of it. I wish I had the whole of
Mr. Poe’s poems, the whole of his writings, in short —I wish I might receive .
his coming work upon the literati of New York.? I wish that this sheet may
be taken notice of immediately by Mr. Poe, and also that I may know of the
notice soon.
Phillips. Apl. 3d. [1846]
Edgar A. Poe Esquire* G. W. Eveleth
Endorsed
Phillips Me / Apr. 3 Paid, 10
Edgar A. Poe Esquire
or ;
Publisher, Broadway Journal
City-New-York
N. Y.
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