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James Russell Lowell to Edgar Allen Poe.
According to M. A. DeWolfe Howe, James Russell Lowell wrote to George Woodberry on March 12, 1884, that "[I saw Poe only once] and that must have been, I think, in 1843 when I was in New York sitting to Page for my portrait."[3] Whatever the date of the meeting, it is known that in 1843 Lowell wrote at least four letters on various literary matters to Poe. A letter of September 27, 1844, was printed in Richard Henry Stoddard's Recollections Personal and Literary, ed. Ripley Hitchcock (1903; pp. 101-102). The Critic (42 [April 1903], 319) prints a facsimile of this letter, revealing a phrase not present in Stoddard's text. Referring to his biography of Poe that he will send Poe, Lowell says, "It is not half so good as it ought to be."
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