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Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan dated November 6, 1830
Manuscript, Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia

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.

Please give my respects to Mrs.
A and to Mr and Mrs. Las Galt
and Miss V.

Mr. Cunningham was also on here
some time since, and Mr. I. Chevalie
and I was indeed very much in
hopes that the beauty of the river
would have tempted yourself and
Mr. and Mrs. Las Galt to have
paid us a visit.