| | 103 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick William Thomas, 1841, September 1  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Griswold left a note for me at the office, the
other day, requesting me to furnish him with some memoranda
of your life; and it will, of course, give me great pleasure to
do so; but, upon sitting down to the task, I find that neither
myself, nor Mrs Clemm, upon whom I mainly depend for infor.
mation, can give all the necessary points with sufficient pre-
cision for G's purpose. Just send me a line, therefore, answering
the following queries, and I will put your responses into
shape. Most of the points we know, but not with full certainty.
What is your father's Christian name? Had your parents more
children than yourself, Lewis, Frances, Susan, Martha, Isabella &
Jackson? -if so, what were their names? When & where were
you born? With whom did you study law? What was (exactly) the
cause of your lameness? How did you first become known to the
literary world? Who were your most intimate associates in
Baltimore? When did you remove to Cincinnati? With what
papers have you been occasionally connected -if with any? Be-
sides answering these queries -give me a list of your writings
published & unpublished -and some memoranda respecting your
late lectures at Washington. Reply as soon as possible, as
the volume is in press. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 104 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Dr. Thomas A. Chivers, 1842 July 6 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I fear you will have accused me of disrespect
in not replying to either of your three last letters -but if
so, you will have wronged me. Among all my
correspond-
ents there is not one whose good opinion I am more anxious
to retain than your own. A world of perplexing business has
led me to postpone, from day to day, a duty which it is
al-
ways a pleasure to perform. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 105 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Clemm, Maria, 1790-1871 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Maria Clemm to unknown correspondent, 1865 October 6 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I have just received your most
welcome letter for it has been so
very long since I have heard from you,
I am better again, and as soon as I am
able I will comply with request, now I
can scarcely write those few lines. No,
I have not heard from Mr Lewis or the
drep either. God help my poor soul
that is obliged to ask a favor, altho I
am just going to ask one of you, but I
feel so sure if it is in your power you
will grant it I want $5 or even three
more than I ever did in my whole
life, cannot you procure it for me
some
how, oh if you could only know how
much I am in need of it you would
try to send it to me, if possible write
by return of mail. I am very sad to
day for tomorrow is the anniversary
of my darling Eddies death. please
excuse this piece of paper I have no
other and have not the means of getting
it | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 106 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to L.J. Cist, 1844 June 3 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Yours, dated April 30th, has
only this moment reached me; having been lying,
ever since, at Graham's office. I have removed
to New-York, where I intend residing for the
next year or two — and this will account, in part,
for my not receiving the package sooner. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 108 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Percival, Charles | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Charles Percival to Edgar Allan Poe, 1845 December 19 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | 9 56,
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| 110 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | 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 |
| 111 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 June 25 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I wrote you on the 10th of June in
reply to yours of the 8th in which I urged
my reasons in further support of my request
to be allowed to
publish a poem — & I did
intend, but forgot to say in conclusion, that
as I had submitted the question of its being
expedient to your decision — I should by
no means publish it without your appro-
-bation — I say this now, because I fear
from your silence that I have offended
you in pressing my request any farther. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 112 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 July 15 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I have written you twice
lately & have received no answer-
I would not trouble you so often with
my letters, but I am afraid that
being up at the Byrd you might
probably not have received them—
I am very anxious to return home
thro' Washington when I have every
hope of being appointed for Sep-r &
besides by being detained at Baltimore
I am incurring unecessary expense
as Grandmother is not in a situation
to give me any accomodation—
I sometimes am afraid that you are angry
& perhaps you have reason to be—but
if you will but put a little more confidence
in me—I will endeavor to deserve it—
I am sure no one can be more an
xious, or would do more towards
helping myself than I would—if
I had any means of doing it—
without your assistance, I have
none—I am anxious to abide by
your directions, if I knew what
they were. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 113 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | 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 |
| 115 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 November 18 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I duly received your letter enclosing a
check for $80. for which I am truly thankful.
This will be quite sufficient for all the expenditures
you mention but I am afraid if I purchase
a piece of linen which I am much in want
I shall have none left for pocket money, -&
if you could get me a piece or a 1/2 piece at
Mr. Galts & send it to me by the boat, I
could get it made up gratis by my Aunt
Maria _ | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 116 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Samuel Graves, 1830 May 3 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I have just received your letter which
is the first I have ever got from you -
I suppose the reason of my not not getting
your other was that you directed
to
Washington -but I have not
been there for some time -As
to what you say about Downey
Mr. A very evidently misunderstood
me, and I wish you to understand
that I never sent any money by
Downey whatsoever-Mr.
A is
not very often sober -which accounts
for it -I mentioned to him that
I had seen Downey at
Balto. as
I did, & that I wished to send it
on by him, but he did not intend
going to the point. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 117 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1830 June 28 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I take the very first opportunity
which I have had since arriving here of
acknowledging the receipt of your letter of
the 21st May
inclosing a U. S. note for $20
I received it 3 days ago -it had been lying
some time in the W.P. food office where it
was forwarded from
Balto
by
Henry[1].
As to what you say about the books &c
I have taken nothing except what I
considered my own property. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 118 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1830 November 6 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I would have written you long before
but did not know my letters
would reach you. I was greatly in hopes
you would have come on to W. Point
while you were in H. York and was very
much discomfited when I heard you
had gone on home without letting me
hear from you. I have a very
excellent standing in my class. in
the first section in every thing and
have great hopes of doing well.
I have spent my time very pleasantly
hitherto but the study requisite is
incessant, and the discipline ex-
ceedingly rigid. I have seen Genl
Scott here since I came, and he
was very polite and attentive.
I am very much pleased with
Colonel Thayer, and indeed with
every thing at the institution.
If you would be so kind as to
send me on a Box of Mathematical
Instruments, and a copy of the
Cambridge Mathematics, you
would confer a great favor upon me
and render my situation much more
comfortable, or forward to Col. Thayer
the means of obtaining them; for
as I have no deposit, my more
necessary expenditures have run
me into debt. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 120 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1831 February 21 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | In spite of all my resolution to the con-
-trary I am obliged once more to recur to you
for assistance—It will however be the last
time that I ever trouble any human being—I
feel that I am on sick bed from which I never
shall get up. I now make an appeal
not to your affection because I have lost
that but to your sense of justice—I wrote
to you for permission to resign—because it was
impossible that I could stay—my
ear has been too
shocking for any description—I am wearing away
every
day—even if my last sickness had not com-
pleted it. I wrote to you as I
say for per-
mission to resign because without your permission
no resignation can be received. My reason for
doing so was that I should obtain my mileage am-
ounting to $30.35— according to the rules of the
in-
stitution. in my present circumstance a single
dollar is of more importance to me
than 10,000 are to you
and you deliberately
refused to answer my letter
—I, as I told you,
neglected my duty when I
found it impossible to attend to it, and
the consequences were inevitable—dismissal.
I have been dismissed—when a
single line from
you would have saved it—The whole aca-
demy have
interested themselves in my behalf
because my only crime was being
sick. but
it was of no use—I refer you to
Col Thayer
to the public records, for my standing and repu-
tation for talent—but it was all in vain
if you had granted me permission to resign—all
might have been avoided—I have not strength nor
energy left to write half what I feel—you
one day
or other will feel how you have
treated me. I left West Point two days
ago
and travelling to N. York without a cloak or
any
other clothing of importance. I have caught a
most violent cold and am confined to my
bed.
I have no money—no friends—I have
written to my brother—but he cannot
help me—I shall never rise from my
bed—besides a most violent cold on my lungs
my ear discharges blood and matter continually
and my headache is distracting—I hardly
know what I am writing—I will
write no more—Please send me a
little money—quickly—and forget
what I said about you— | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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