| | 1 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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 — | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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