| | 1 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 May 29  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I am now going to make a request
different from any I have ever yet made -
As I wrote you, sometime
since, I have been
several times to visit Mr. Wirt, who had
treated me with great kindness & attention.
I
sent him, for his opinion, a day or two ago,
a poem which I have written since I left
home -& in the letter
which I now enclose
you have his opinion upon its merits -From
such a man as Mr. Wirt the flattering
char-
acter he has given of the work, will surely be
to you a recommendation in its favor.
In the conclusion
of the letter you will see
that he advises me to
"get a personal intro-
duction to Mr. Walsh" the editor of the
Ame-
rican Quarterly Review & get his interest in
my favor -that interest, and his highest
encomiums on the poem are already obtained
as Editor of the Review he promises to notice it
which will assure it, if not of popularity,
of success. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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