| | 82 | 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 |
| 83 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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 |
| 84 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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 |
| 85 | 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 |
| 87 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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 |
| 88 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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 |
| 89 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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 |
| 90 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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 |
| 92 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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 |
| 93 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1831 October 16 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | It is a long time since I have
written to you unless with an application for
money or assistance. I am sorry that it
is so seldom that I hear from you or even
of you — for all communication seems to
be
at an end, and when I think of the long
twenty one years that I have called you
father, and you have called me son, I could
cry like a child to think that it should all
end in this. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 94 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1831 November 18 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I am in the greatest distress and have
no other friend on earth to apply to except yourself
if you refuse to help me I know not what
I shall do. I was arrested eleven days ago
for a debt which I never expected to have
to pay, and which was incurred as much
on Hy's. account as on my own about
two years ago. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 95 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1831 December 15 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I am sure you could not refuse to assist me
if you were well aware of the distress I am in. How often
have you relieved the distresses of a perfect stranger in circumstances less urgent than mine. and yet when I beg
and intreat you in the name of God to send me
succour you will still refuse to aid me. I know
that I have offended you past all forgiveness, and
I know that I have no longer any hopes of being again
received into your favour, but for the sake of Christ
do not let me perish for a sum of money which
you would never miss, and which would relieve
me from the greatest earthly misery — especially
as I promise by all that is sacred that I
will never under my circumstances apply to you
again. Oh! if you knew at this moment how
wretched I am you would never forgive yourself
for having refused me. You are enjoying yourself
in all the blessings that wealth & happiness can
bestow, and I am suffering every extremity of want
and misery without ever a chance of escape, or a
friend to whom I can look up to for assistance. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 96 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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— | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 97 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 98 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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— | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 99 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Add | | | 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 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 100 | Author: | Allan, John | Add | | | 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 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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