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Will you be kind enough to give me an early reply to this letter, and believe me

Yours very resply

Philadelphia,

Edgar A Poe

Office Graham’s Magazine, August 13./ 41.

Lea and Blanchard to Edgar Allan Poe — August 16, 1841

Dear Sir, — We have yours of 13th int in which you are kind enough to offer us a “new collection of prose tales.”

In answer we very much regret to say that the state of affairs is such as to give little encouragement to new undertakings. As yet we have not got through the edition of the other work & up to this time it has not returned to us the expense of its publication. We assure you that we regret this on your account as well as our own, as it would give us great pleasure to promote your views in relation to publication.

We are

Very Resp

your obt St

Lea & Blanchard.

Edgar a Poe Esq

Office of Graham’s Magazine.

Philad. Aug. 11, (16) 1841.

Edgar Allan Poe to E. L. Carey or John Hart — December 9, 1839

Dr Sir,

Mr Burton mentioned to me, before going to Charleston, that you were good enough to promise him a Chapter from Marryatt’s forthcoming work, for the Jan: No. of our Mag: The Chapter was, I believe, one on “Migration & Emigration”. Will you please let me have it, if convenient, by the bearer?

Resply

E A. Poe

Mr Carey or Mr Hart.

Dec 9.

Edgar Allan Poe to E. L. Carey — about April, 1842

Thursday Morning

Office Graham’s Magazine

My Dear Sir —

I fear you have forgotten me — or it is not improbable that you have sent a note to the Office which has not come to hand. Lest this may have been the case I thought it best to write.

The MS. will make, as near as may be, 18 pp.

Yours very respr

E. A. Poe

E. L. Carey Esqr

Edgar Allan Poe to Edward L. Carey — May 31, 1844

New-York

May 31.rst 44.

My Dear Sir,

I would take it as a very great favor if you could let me see the proof of my tale, “The Purloined Letter,” which will be in the next “Gift”. I am not, usually, solicitous about proofs; but, in this instance, the MS. Had many interlineations and erasures, which may render my seeing one, necessary. Please send it, per “Harnden’s Express” to care of “Wm. H. Graham, Tribune Office, N. York.” I will return it promptly.

Yours very resply

Edgar A Poe

E. L. Carey Esqre

P.S.) Perhaps it would be better merely to send the proof to “Office of Graham’s Magazine” here in Phila: with directions to forward it to me, here.

HAWKS, DR. FRANCIS LISTER

Francis Hawks to E. A. Poe - early 1837 - 1838 (?)]

[. . .] I wish you to fall in with your broad-axe amidst this miserable literary trash which surrounds us. I believe you have the will, and I know you have the ability. [. . .]

[This excerpt of the letter is all that is known. It was quoted in the biographical article on Poe printed in the Saturday Museum (Philadelphia) for March 4, 1843.]

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL

Nathaniel Hawthorne to Edgar Allan Poe - June 17, 1846]

Salem, June 17, 1846.

My Dear Sir, -- I presume the publishers will have sent you a copy of "Mosses from an Old Manse" the latest (and probably the last) collection of my tales and sketches. I have read your occasional notices of my productions with great interest -- not so much because your judgment was, upon the whole, favorable, as because it seemed to be given in earnest. I care for nothing but the truth; and shall always much more readily accept a harsh truth, in regard to my writings, than a sugared falsehood.

I confess, however, that I admire you rather as a writer of tales than as a critic upon them, I might often -- and often do -- dissent from your opinions in the latter capacity, but could never fail to recognize your force and originality in the former.

Yours very truly,

Nath. Hawthorne.

E. A. Poe, Esq., New York.

HEATH, JAMES EWELL

James E. Heath to Edgar Allan Poe - September 12, 1839]

Richmond, 12. Sept. 1839.

Dear Sir, -- Since the receipt of yours of the 5 inst. I have been so exceedingly occupied arid withal so very much indisposed, that I could not until within the last day or two,