The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe [1339]
Very Respectfully,
Yours, &c. &c.
W. D. Gallagher
P. S. Accompanying this, I take the liberty of sending you a volume of “Selections from the Poetical Literature of the West,” which has just been issued in our Backwoods regions by an enterprising Western publisher. I trust you may find in it something to your liking.
GILLESPIE, WILLIAM MITCHELL
William M. Gillespie to Edgar Allan Poe — March 1, 1845
Saturday Morning
My dear Sir
I was one of your delighted hearers last night, but have to complain that you tempted me to load my memory with so many points of thought and expression, that I carried off very imperfectly one passage which I particularly desired to remember - your characterization of Mrs. Osgood.
I had left her in the Astor House with her hat on awaiting the friend with whom she was coming to the lecture; but she was disappointed, and lost the pleasure of hearing you, which she had so eagerly anticipated, though not knowing that she would be noticed. I fear that she was not sufficiently en rapport with me to share my thrill of pleasure at the passage, and the applause which followed it; and therefore I ask of you the favor of giving me the opportunity to copy it from your manuscript, as I should be unwilling to give you that trouble.
I remain with high respect
Yours sincerely
Wm M Gillespie
To Edgar A Poe Esq
Edgar Allan Poe to William M. Gillespie — after February 26, 1845, (possibly March 6, 1845)
My Dear Gillespie,
An unlucky contretemps, connected with the getting out of the “Journal” will, I fear, detain me until after 10 to night — too late for the appointment.
If you can (this evening) see Mrs O. & make any decent apology for me, I will be greatly obliged. Any evening (except to-morrow) I shall be disengaged, and will be happy to accompany you.
In haste
Yours truly
Poe.
Thursday Evening
8. O’clock.
GLEASON, FREDERICK
Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick Gleason — February 5, 1849
New-York — Feb. 5 — ‘49
Dear Sir,
On returning home, after ten days’ absence, I find your letter of the 22nd. Ult. What you say is satisfactory; and shall be happy to contribute, as often as possible, to “The Flag”. In the course of next week, I will send you a tale or sketch; and in the meantime I leave with Mr. French a short poem which I hope will please you.
I am glad to hear that, among other contributors, you have made arrangements with Mrs. Osgood, and Mr. Benjamin. Their names can not fail to sustain the reputation of your paper and give it tone.
Very cordially yours,
Edgar A. Poe.
F. Gleason, Esq.
GODEY, LOUIS ANTOINE
Edgar Allan Poe to Louis A. Godey — April 28, 1846
New-York April 28 46
My Dear Sir,
Enclosed I send you 47 autographs — all I have on hand; but I believe that I shall be able to supply nearly all the rest. Here follows a list of the whole series of authors to come in.
Bush
Colton
Cheever
Cary
Lawson
Willis
Gillespie
Duyckinck
Cranch
Briggs
Kirkland
English
Mrs Stephens
Francis
Osborn
Clark
Miss Fuller
Miss Mowatt
Hunt
Mrs Gove (Mary Orme)
E. Sargent
Anthon
Verplanck
Aldrich
Mrs Embury
Maroncelli
Hoyt
Halleck
Wetmore
Mrs Osgood
Miss Lynch
Fay
Herbert
Greeley
Godwin
J. Willis
Reynolds
Maturin
O’Sullivan
Deming
Mrs Hewitt
Mrs Smith
Raymond
Headley
Brownlee
Morris
Kent
Ward
Tellkampf
Foster
Seba Smith
Mrs. Child
Gardner Spring
Irving
Mathews
Jno. Stepens
Wallace
Cooley
Mancur
King
Keese
T. Irving
Mrs Kirkland
Inman
Paulding
Lester
W. A. Jones
Tuckerman
Noah
Gouraud
Earle
Slidell
Mrs Godwin
Miss Sedgwick
Gallatin
Bryant
Otis
Harring
Johnston
Locke
Webber
J. Sargent