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Lea and Blanchard to Edgar Allan Poe — October 30, 1839

October 30, 1839

Edgar A. Poe Esqr., — The printing of a few extra copies of your tales on fine paper would be very troublesome to the printer. But if he is willing, we have no objection to six copies being printed at your cost.

We designed sending 20 copies of the edition to you on publication for private distribution.

Lea and Blanchard to Edgar Allan Poe — November 20, 1839

November 20, 1839.

Edgar A. Poe,

We have your note of today. The copyright of the Tales would be of no value to us; when we undertook their publication, it was solely to oblige you and not with any view to profit, and on this ground it was urged by you. We should not therefore be now called upon or expected to purchase the copyright when we have no expectation of realizing the Capital placed in the volumes. If the offer to publish was now before us we should certainly decline it, and would feel obliged if you knew and would urge some one to relieve us from the publication at cost, or even at a small abatement.

Edgar Allan Poe to Lea and Blanchard — August 13, 1841

Mess. Lea & Blanchard,

Gentlemen,

I wish to publish a new collection of my prose Tales with some such title as this — “The Prose Tales of Edgar A. Poe, Including “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, The “Descent into The Maelstrom”, and all his later pieces, with a second edition of the “Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque”

The “later pieces” will be eight in number, making the entire collection thirty-three — which would occupy two thicknovel volumes.

I am anxious that your firm should continue to be my publishers, and, if you would be willing to bring out the book, I should be glad to accept the terms which you allowed me before — that is — you receive all profits, and allow me twenty copies for distribution to friends.

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