The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe [1310]
Very truly & respectfully
Yr Ob. St.
Edgar A Poe
Dr Pliny Earle
ELLET, MRS. ELIZABETH F.
Elizabeth F. Ellet to Edgar Allan Poe — about December 15, 1845
Presidency of So. Ga. College
It might be well to mention the fact admitted in all the Southern papers — that Revd Dr Henry was removed simply on the ground that he was “unpopular” without a single charge being alleged against his character, qualifications or scholarship. In the latter he has no equal in the state. To be “unpopular” in South Carolina is as fatal as the cry of “mad dog” or the accusation of “pride” at the west. The Legislature, two years since, spurned at the idea of Mr Preston, for the Presidency, on the same ground precisely. It might do also to mention how much the Trustees are featured by their fear of not pleasing the Legislature. A bill was before that august body not long since to prohibit the college professors from leaving the State at any time — without express permission from the legislature — but it is not necessary to mention that. I would write the article, but am afraid of displeasing Dr E. as the Broadway Journal goes to Columbia — & I should be discovered at once. E.
Iche habe einen Brief fur Sie - wollen Sie gerfalligst heute Abend nach Uhr den sebbe bein mir entnehmen oder abholen lassen.
O welchen Riss erregst du mir im Herzen
Die Sinne sind in deinen Banden noch
Hat gleich die Seele blutend sich befreit!
Elizabeth F. Ellet to Edgar Allan Poe — December 16, 1845
Do not use in any way the memorandum about the So. Ca. College. Excuse the repeated injunction - but as you would not decipher my German manuscript - I am fearful of some other mistake.
EVANS, ELWOOD
Edgar Allan Poe to Elwood Evans — September 21, 1843
My Dr Sir,
I have been absent from the city for the last few weeks & your note of the 15th is only this moment received.
I have the pleasure of informing you that Mr Dana’s address is Chestnut Street, Boston.
Yr Ob. St
Edgar A. Poe
Elwood Evans Esqre
EVELETH, GEORGE WASHINGTON
George W. Eveleth to Edgar Allan Poe — December 21, 1845
Phillips, Dec. 21st
I commenced taking Graham’s Magazine in 1842. It was about the first of my reading of the kind; and I was highly pleased with it — was especially pleased with the passionate stories of Mrs. Stephens, and the merry, skipping, child-like utterings forth of Mrs. Osgood. Yet there were some few productions which I met with that were not in much favor with me at first; and they were those of Mr. Poe, the editor of the magazine during the first six months that I took it. His criticisms, I thought, were sheer pedantries, and his tales very perplexities, very enigmas which I could not unravel.. His “Mask of the Red Death,” in particular, seemed a complete mystery. I could find neither beginning, middle, nor end to it — neither design nor meaning. But I was only a boy, and unused to much thinking, or to analyzing; so. I was unprepared to judge with respect to the merits of what I read. I was incapable of discovering the lofty talent (genius, I suppose I should say) which his writings really possessed. — No, I know I am but little better fitted for the station of judge of literary merit than I was three years ago, and I have not aspired to that station now. I merely give my feeling. I have gone back to that old volume of the magazine, and read over and over again the reviews there, and have read, as carefully, those that have appeared in all the later volumes. But it has appeared to my mind that there was less of real, sound, philosophical criticism in the whole of these latter, than even in the one little notice of Hawthorne’s “Twice-told Tales” among the former. And I should find more pleasure in perusing now, for the twentieth time, the fantasy condemned above, than in reading a story by Mrs. Osgood, Mrs. Embury, Mr. Peterson, or any of the host of fanciful newspaper