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1Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 October 30  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: I received your letter this evening and am grieved that I can give you no positive evidence of my industry & zeal as regards the appt. at W. Point: unless you will write to Mr. Eaton himself who well remembers me & the earnest tones of my afflication. But you are labouring under a mistake which I beg you to correct by reference to all my former letters — I stated that Mr. Eaton told me that an appt. could be obtained by Sepr : 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 appt. at the next term which is in June next — So far from having any doubts of my appt. at that time, I am as certain of obtaining it as I am of being alive —
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