The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe [1337]
That you may know how much manuscript makes a page of the Ex, I mention that the article sent forms between four and five if not more. It may possibly run to six. I care not how long you make your regular series. — Say 10 pages per month. The subject demands room —
Is there any chance of your ever visiting our smoky city? We are not without some points, although limited in number, and I should be well pleased to have you spend a short or long time with me, just as you might please. I am a bachelor, with a household of women in the shape of mother and sisters, and your wife might pass her time very agreeably. I make the offer in a spirit of selfishness, for I long to have some chat on matters more to my taste than discussions relative to the realm of pig iron, and the probabilities of a dull demand for manufactured articles — You understand me.
But I must close, for your time is valuable, and I have a thousand things demanding attention.
Truly Your Friend
E Burke Fisher
Edgar A Poe Esq.
E. Burke Fisher to Edgar Allan Poe — November 17, 1839
This letter is described in the Bangs Sale Catalogue of April 11, 1896 as item 110: “A. L. S. 1 from E. Burke Fisher, proprietor of the Pittsburgh ‘Examiner,’ dated from Mount Pleasant, Pa. Nov. 17, 1839, 1 p. p. 4to and address, to Edgar Allan Poe. Apologizes for returning a draft unpaid, in consequence of absence from his office (endorsed by Poe).” (Bangs, 1896, p. 30, item 110).
FULLER, MISS SARAH MARGARET
Margaret Fuller to Edgar Allan Poe — August 9, 1845
To the Editor of The Broadway Journal.
I was much obliged to you for your ready acceptance of my article entitled “A peep behind the curtain” and I was very much gratified that you were not alone in your estimate of it, as it was copied very extensively into the public papers. I hope I shall always be equally fortunate.
The object of the present communication speaks for itself. It is to ridicule a style of writing very common in your sex, when discoursing of ours, but which deserves no better epithet than ineffable silliness. I am aware that Longfellow is a popular poet & deservedly so, but I am sure he will not be offended at such a mere piece of pleasantry, coming as it does from one of the party to whom such soft nonsense is addressed. I also wished to make some slight acknowledgment to the notice in the Whig review for this very flattering view he takes of the weaker sex.
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GALLAHER, JOHN S.
Edgar Allan Poe to John S. Gallaher and William H. Davis — about September 2, 1836
To the Editor of the Compiler:
Dear Sir:
In a late paragraph respecting the “Southern Literary Messenger,” you did injustice to that Magazine — and perhaps your words, if unanswered, may even do it an injury. As any such wrong is far from your thoughts, you will of course, allow the Editor of the Messenger the privilege of reply. The reputation of a young Journal, occupying a conspicuous post in the eye of the public, should be watched, by those who preside over its interests, with a jealous attention, and those interests defended when necessary and when possible. But it is not often possible. Custom debars a Magazine from answering in its own pages (except in rare cases,) contemporary misrepresentations and attacks. Against these it has seldom, therefore, any means of defence — the best of reasons why it should avail itself of the few which, through courtesy, may fall to its lot. I mean this as an apology for troubling you to-day.
Your notice of the Messenger would generally be regarded as complimentary — especially so to myself. I would, however, prefer justice to a compliment, and the good name of the Magazine to any personal consideration. The concluding sentence of your paragraph runs thus: “The criticisms are pithy, and often highly judicious, but the editors must remember