| | 201 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1831 December 29  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Nothing but extreme misery and distress would make me venture to intrude myself again upon your notice— If you knew how wretched I am sure that you would believe me. No person in the world I am sure, could have undergone more wretchedness that I have done for some time past — and I have indeed no friend to look to but yourself — and no chance of extricating myself without your assis--stance. I know that I have no claim upon your generosity — and that what little share I had of your affection is long since forfeited, but, for the sake of what once was dear to you, for the sake of the love you bore me when I sat upon your knee and called you father do not forsake me this only time — and god will remember you accordingly— | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 202 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1833 April 12 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | It has now been more than two years[1] since you
have assisted me and more than three years since you have
spoken to me. I feel little hope that you will pay
any regard to this letter, but still I cannot refrain
from making one more attempt to interest you in
my behalf. If you will only consider in what a
situation I am placed you will surely pity me -
without friends, without any means, consequently
of obtaining employment, I am perishing -absolutely
perishing for want of aid. And yet I am not
idle -nor addicted to any vice -nor have I
committed any offence against society which would
render me deserving of so hard a fate. For
God's sake pity me, and save me from destruction. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 203 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, Esquire, 19 March 1827 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | After my treatment on yesterday and what
passed between us this morning, I can hardly think you
will be surprised at the contents of this letter. My determi-
nation is at length taken to leave your house and
endeavor to find some place in this wide world, where I
will be treated—not as you have treated me—
This is not a hurried determination, but one on
which I have long considered—and having so
considered my resolution is unalterable—
You may perhaps think that I have flown off
in a fashion, & that I am already wishing to
return; But not so—I will give you the
reasons which have actuated me, and then
judge— | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 204 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Letter, Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 20 March, 1827 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Be so good as to send me my trunk
with my clothes—I wrote to you on yesterday explain
-ing my reasons for leaving—I suppose by my
not receiving either my trunk, or an answer to
my letter, that you did not receive it—I am
in the greatest necessity, not having tasted food
since yesterday morning. I have no where to
sleep at night, but roam about the streets—
I am nearly exhausted—I beseech you as you
wish not your prediction concerning me to
be fulfilled—to send me without delay my
trunk containing my clothes, and to lend if
you will not give me as much money as
will defray the expence of my passage to
Boston. ($12) and a little to support me there
untill I shall be enabled to engage in some
business. I sail on Saturday—A letter
will be received by me at the Court House
Tavern, where be so good as to send my trunk | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 205 | Author: | Allan, John | Add | | | Title: | Letter, from John Allan to Edgar Allan Poe, 1827 March 20 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | your letter of Monday was received this
morning, I am not at all surprized at any step
you may take, at any thing you can say, or
any thing you may do, you are a much
better judge of the propriety of your own conduct
and general treatment of those who have had the charge
of your infancy I have watched with parental
solicitude & affection over your tender years
affording you such means of instruction as was
in their power & which was performed with
pleasure until you became a much better judge
of your own conduct, rights & priviledges, than
they, it is true: I taught you to aspire, even to
eminence in Public Life, but I never expected
that Don Quixotte. Gil
Blas: Jo; Miller & such
works were calculated to promote the end | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 206 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection:
Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, May [25], 1826 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I this morning recieved the clothes you sent me,
viz an uniform coat, six yards of striped cloth for pantaloons
& four pairs of socks — The coat is a beautiful one &
fits me exactly — I thought it best not to write 'till
I recieved the clothes — or I should have written
before this.
You have heard no doubt of the disturbances in College
Soon after you left here the Grand Jury met and put
the students in a terrible fright — so much so that
the lectures were unattended — and those whose
names were up
on the Sheriff's list —travelled off
into the woods & mountains — taking their beds
and provisions along with them —there were about
50 on the list — so you may suppose the College was
very well thinned
— this was the first day of the fright
the second day, "A proclamation was issued by the
faculty forbidding "any students under pain of a
major punishment to leave his dormitory between
the hours of 8 & 10 A M — (at which time the Sheriffs
would be about) or in any way to resist the lawful
authority of the Sheriffs"— This order however was
very little attended to — as the fear of the Faculty could
not counterbalance that of the Grand Jury — most
of the "indicted" ran off a second time into the woods
and upon an examination the next morning by the
Fa-
culty
— Some were reprimanded —some suspended
and one expelled— James Albert Clark
from Manchester.
(I went to school with him at Barke's)
was suspended for two months. Armstead Carter
from this neighbourhood, for the remainder of the
session —
And Thomas Barclay for ever—
There have been several fights since you were here—
One between Turner Dixon and
Blow from
Nor-
folk excited more interest than any I have seen,
for a common fight is so trifling an occurrence
that no notice is taken of it — Blow
got much
the advantage in the scuffle — but Dixon posted
him in very indecent terms— upon which the
whole
Norfolk
party rose in arms — & nothing was
talked off for a week, but
Dixon's charge &
Blow's
explanation — every pillar in the University was
white with
scratched paper — Dixon made an
a physical attack upon Arthur Smith one of
Blow's
Norfolk friends —
and a "very fine fellow".
he struck him with a large stone on one side of
his head — whereupon Smith
drew a pistol (which
are all the fashion here) and had it not miss-
fire— would have put an end to the controversy.
but so it was— it did miss fire —
and the matter
has since been more peaceably setled — as the
Proctor engaged a Magistrate
to bind the whole
forces on both sides — over to the peace —
Give my love to Ma & Miss Nancy -& all my friends — | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 207 | Author: | Allan, John | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from John Allan to Edgar Allan Poe, 1829 May 18 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I duly recd your letter from
Baltimore
on Saturday but seeing Col Preston I gave it to
him to read. I have not yet recovered possession.
The contents however, are on my mind. I was agreeably
pleased to hear that the Honourable Jms J
Barber
did interest himself so much in your favour
He perhaps remembered you when you were at the
Springs in 1812. from the interest exhibited by the
Secratary of War you stand a fair chance I think
of being one of those selected for Sept.
Col. Preston
wrote a warm letter in your favour to Major Eaton since
your departure. Major Campbell left this for Washington
on yesterday. While you are in Maryland,
assertain
& get Certificate of the fact whether your Grandfather
was in the Service during the revoly
war. where
he served.[1] Rank & &. it may be of service & cannot
do you any harm. I cover a Bank check of Virga
on the union Bank of Maryland (this date) of
Baltimore for one Hundred Dollars payable to your
order be prudent and careful | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 208 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 July 26 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I received yours of the 19th on the 22d
ulto
& am truly thankful for the money which you sent
me, notwithstanding the taunt with which it was
given "that men of genius ought not to apply to your
aid"—It is too often their necessity to want that
little timely assistance which would prevent such
applications— | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 209 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 August 4 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I am unable to account for your not
answering—if you are offended with me—I repeat
that I have done nothing to deserve your displeasure
If you doubt what I say & think that I have ne—
glected to use any exertions in the procuring my
warrant—write yourself to Mr Eaton & he will
tell you that more exertions could not have
been—the appt might have been obtained for
June if the application had been made 2 months
sooner & you will remember that I was under
the impression that you were making exertions
to obtain the situation for me, while I was at
Old Point & so situated as to be unable to use
any exertions of my own—On returning home
nothing had been done—it is therefore unjust
to blame me for a failure, after using every
endeavour, when success was impossible
rendered so by your own delay— | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 210 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 August 10 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I received yours this morning which re—
leived me from more trouble than you can well
imagine—I was afraid that you were offended
& although I knew that I had done nothing to
deserve your anger, I was in a most uncom
-fortable situation—without one cent of money
—in a strange place & so quickly engaged in dif-
-ficulties after the serious misfortunes which
I have just escaped—My grandmother is ex-
-tremely poor & ill (paralytic) My aunt Maria
if possible still worse & Henry entirely given up
to drink & unable to help himself, much less
me— | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 211 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Letter, Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, September 21, 1826 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | The whole college1
has been put in great consternation
by the prospect of an examination—
There is to be a general
one on the first of December, which will occupy the time
of the students till the fifteenth —
the time for breaking up —
It has not yet been determined whether there
will be any diplomas, or doctor's degrees given — but
I should hardly think there will be any such thing,
as this is only the second year of the institution &
in other colleges three and four years are required
in order to take a degree — that is, that time is
supposed to be necessary —
altho they sometimes
confer them before — if the applicants are qualified. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 213 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1828 December 22 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I wrote you shortly before leaving Fort
Moultrie & am much hurt at receiving no answer.
Perhaps my letter has not reached you & under that
supposition I will recapitulate its contents. It was chiefly
to sollicit your interest in freeing me from the Army of
the U.S. in which (as Mr. Lay's letter from
Lieut Howard
informed you) I am at present a soldier. I begged
that you would suspend any judgement you might
be inclined to form, upon many untoward circumstances,
until you heard of me again — & begged you to
give my dearest love to Ma & solicit her not to let
my wayward disposition wear away the affection
she used to have for me. I mentioned that all that
was necessary to obtain my discharge from the army
was your consent in a letter to Lieut J. Howard,
who has heard of you by report, & the high character
given you by Mr. Lay; this being all that I asked
at your hands, I was hurt at your declining to answer
my letter. Since arriving at Fort Moultrie
Lieut Howard has given me an introduction to
Col. James House of the 1st
Arty to whom I was
before personally known only as a soldier of his
regiment. He spoke kindly to me. told me that
he was personally acquainted with my Grandfather
Genl. Poe
[1], with yourself & family, &
reassured me
of my immediate discharge upon your consent.
It must have been a matter of regret to me, that
when those who were strangers took such deep interest
in my welfare, that you who called me your son
should refuse me even the common civility of
answering a letter. If it is your wish to forget
that I have been your son I am too proud to remind
you of it again. I only beg you to remember that
you yourself cherished the cause of my leaving your
family. Ambition. If it has not taken the channel
you wished it, it is not the less certain of its object.
Richmond & the U. States were too narrow a sphere &
the world shall be my theatre. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 214 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 February 4 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I wrote you some time ago from this place
but have as yet received no reply. Since that time
I wrote to John Mc.Kenzie desiring him to see
you personally & desire for me, of you, that you
would interest yourself in procuring me a
cadets' appointment at the Military Academy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 215 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 March 10 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I arrived on the point this morning,
in good health, and if it were not for late
occur-
-rences, should feel much happier than I have for
a long time.[2] I have had a fearful warning,
& have hardly ever known before what distress
was. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 216 | Author: | Pond, Major J. B. | Add | | | Title: | Mark Twain and George W. Cable [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Description: | MARK TWAIN and GEORGE W. CABLE travelled together one season. Twain and Cable,
a
colossal attraction, a happy combination! Mark owned the show, and paid Mr. Cable $600 a week
and his travelling and hotel expenses. The manager took a percentage of the gross receipts for his
services, and was to be sole manager. If he consulted the proprietor at all during the term of the
agreement, said agreement became null and void. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 217 | Author: | Randolph, W.C.N. | Add | | | Title: | Letter from W. C. N. Randolph to A. Gordon, Jan. 13, 1896 [a machine-readable
transcription] | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | I enclose you some papers
that will be rather a shock to you but that
will speak for themselves. It makes me
more and more convinced that we can't
safely undertake this task which is upon
us without having a thoroughly trained
inspector and not only that but a supervising
architect. Men who will be entirely in
our interests and who will be paid by
ourselves and who will be making us
frequent reports. Neither Thornton or Echols
are fit for this sort of thing; they haven't
the practical experience nor are either of
them very practical men. We ought to
take the whole affair out of the hands of
the buildings and grounds, except as
to the transference of money. As you are
probably aware I have been very much
dissatisfied with the character of the work
that has been done in the reconstruction
of the two terraces, but being very distrustful
of my own knowledge of such things I
could never shape it in such a way as to
prove to myself that I was not making a
mountain of a mole-hill. The whole thing
has made me right sick. If we are to
undertake this work with an architect who
makes all sorts of errors in his strain sheets;
with a superintendent like Echols, who has
not verified any calculations; and another
superintendent like Thornton who accepts
the architects loose ideas of weights and
strains and deems safe what, when brought
to the tables of experienced facts, proves to be
unsafe and another superintendent like
the venerable Rector who has neither the
time nor the tables nor probably the
capacity to make reliable calculations the
result will be that you and McCabe
will be damned and properly damned for
the balance of your lives and the
venerable Rector will probably be hung &
properly hung. As you may remember as
I said before may Heaven bless all
mixed Committees and save me the
trouble of having so far to force my
conscience as to bless them. Do pray
burn this letter; it is written in such
bad temper. I started in good humor
enough but as the thing has worked
upon me my gall has risen. I shall
expect you on Friday and you and I and
McCabe must talk these things over where
we can do it without any feeling that we
are treading upon other peoples toes and possibly
finding fault where fault is not due.
Send the papers back to me at once please.
Mr. McDonald has not turned up here
yet but we are expecting him every day. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 218 | Author: | Randolph, W.C.N. | Add | | | Title: | Letter from W.C.N. Randolph to Mr. Gordon, Jan. 24, 1896 [a machine-readable
transcription] | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | I enclose you a letter
from McCabe to myself and a copy of my
reply thereto. I hope that you will give it
a good deal of thought. To my mind it
is exceedingly important. I received yours
this morning. I am glad to hear the good
account that Colonel Cutshaw and Colonel
Douglas give of Mr. Whitely; and still with
the impression that Thornton and Echols
have, it might be dangerous to appoint him.
This question of an Inspector is filled with
many difficulties. General Craighill advises
that we should leave the whole matter
to the architect; Green Peyton who you & I
trust very much thinks an Inspector would
be a mistake; and yet I am perfectly certain
that we ought to have somebody in charge of
this work on behalf of the University. In fact
in any building at the University there
should be someone, an officer of the Institution,
who would be responsible for it. Suppose
Green Peyton were Superintendent of Buildings
and Grounds, how much trouble would you
and I give ourselves about this matter? Not a
bit! So I come to the point. Our Superintendent of
Buildings and Grounds who is one of the
finest fellows in the world, and a man of
splendid intellect, is from habit, character of
mind, and training, unfit for his position.
He takes no interest in it; never can be
found and is not doing his duty. Now I am
not writing this with any harshness at all.
I am just stating to you what I know to be
facts. In addition, the Superintendent of
Buildings and Grounds is the proper
Inspector of the work that goes ont at the
University and if he was the best one in the world,
he ought not to hold the dual position of
member and servant of the Building Committee.
I think, if you all two agree with me, that the
solution of this matter is an easy one. I
am satisfied that Echols is more than
willing to give up the place as Superintendent;
that he intends to do so at the end of the
session and that he would be glad to do it
now. Then it seems to me, that the wisest thing
we can do is to select with great care an
Inspector and when the Board meets let us then
accept Mr. Echols' resignation and I think I can
arrange that it will be offered, and let us
select an appointee as Inspector Superintendent
of Buildings and Grounds. This seems to me to do
away with all the objections to the appointment of
a special Inspector. Now I myself, would be
perfectly willing to take blindly and I don't I
often say that, any man that H.D.
Whitcomb, Colonel Cutshaw and Colonel Douglas,
from a professional stand-point, knowing
these facts, would recommend to us. Think
this matter over; we cant take Thornton
into our confidence about it. In the first
place, no man can ever tell when he has an axe
to grind for himself and then every thing filters
through him to the Faculty and leads to lack
of harmony between us. Mr. Davis came to
me about the Ott matter today. I want to
have a talk to you and McCabe about it
when you come over. Please give this matter
of Inspector a great deal of thought. I am
perfectly satisfied that the master-wheel
of this reconstruction machinery is sound;
but there is a grating cog in a wheel
that will be always worrying us and may
bring us to a disgraceful break-down. Mary
tells me to say to you, that if you come
over on Saturday morning you must bring
Margaret with you and let her spend the
day with the baby. However, you must come
on Friday evening as we must have a long
talk. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 219 | Author: | Randolph, W.C.N. | Add | | | Title: | Letter from W.C.N. Randolph to Mr. McCabe, June 22, 1896
[a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | A knowledge of your
intention to visit Great Britain
this summer has induced me to
request that you will undertake
a matter for the University of Va.
By the recent fire, as you are
aware, our library was almost a
total loss; to replace our buildings
lost at the same time has strained
our finances to the utmost. We
will have a sum left totally
inadequate to supply our need of
books — Our sister institutions
in this country aided us from
their own libraries to the extent
of their power. It has occurred
to me that Oxford and Cam-
bridge actuated by the same
motives of kinship and interest
might aid us in getting the
syndicates that control the Claren-
don and Pitt presses to turn over
to us some of their publications
as a donation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 220 | Author: | Smith, Mary Stuart | Add | | | Title: | Letter from Mary Stuart Smith to Rosalie Thornton, May 3, 1896 [a
machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | I have been
wanting to write to you ever so long, but
will not take up limited time and space
with uninteresting excuses. I have simply
overburdened myself, and have to cry
"Mea Culpa!" in regard to many,
many omissions of duty. I know you
will be glad to hear that I got old
Mr Cummings again at work upon
our sections in the cemetery & it
looks so neat and clean, walks
all around it, included, that I
only wish you could see it before
the summer drought spoils everything.
Of course I had to resow grass seed,
for it just seems as if grass will not
retain its hold there, on account of
too much shade and the inevitable
summer droughts. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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