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201Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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—
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202Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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.
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203Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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—
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204Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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
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205Author:  Allan, JohnRequires cookie*
 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
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206Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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 —
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207Author:  Allan, JohnRequires cookie*
 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
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208Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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—
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209Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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—
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210Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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—
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211Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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.
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212Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, Esq, December 1, 1828  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: The letter of Lieut J. Howard left by Mr John O. Lay for your perusal will explain the cause of my writing from Fort Moultrie.
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213Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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.
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214Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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.
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215Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 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.
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216Author:  Pond, Major J. B.Requires cookie*
 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.
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217Author:  Randolph, W.C.N.Requires cookie*
 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.
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218Author:  Randolph, W.C.N.Requires cookie*
 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.
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219Author:  Randolph, W.C.N.Requires cookie*
 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.
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220Author:  Smith, Mary StuartRequires cookie*
 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.
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