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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.

LEIGHTON, R., JR.

Edgar Allan Poe to Rufus Leighton, Jr. — January 10, 1846

New-York - Jan 10 - 46

Dear Sir

It gives me pleasure to comply with your very flattering request for an autograph.

Respectfully

Yr Ob St

Edgar A Poe

R. Leighton, Jr. Esqr

LESTER, CHARLES EDWARDS

Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Edwards Lester — January 10, 1846

Saturday Jan. 10.

My Dear Sir,

Miss Lynch desires me to say to you that she would be especially pleased to see you at 116 Waverley Place, this evening. Miss Sedgwick, Cassius M. Clay, and some other notabilities will be present.

Very truly yours

Edgar A Poe.

C. Edwards Lester Esqr

LEWIS, MRS. SARAH ANNA

Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Anna Lewis — November 27, 1847

Nov. 27.

Dear Mrs Lewis —

A thousand thanks for your repeated kindness, and, above all, for the comforting and cheering words of your note. Your advice I feel as a command which neither my heart nor my reason would venture to disobey. May Heaven forever bless you and yours!

A day or two ago I sent to one of the Magazines the sonnet enclosed. Its tone is somewhat too light; but it embodies a riddle which I wish to put you to the trouble of expounding. Will you try?

My best regards, with those of Mrs Clemm, >>to Mr Lewis,<< and believe me, with all the affection of a brother,

Yours always,

Edgar A Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Anna Lewis — June 21, 1848

Fordham June 21 48

I have been spending a couple of hours most pleasantly, my dear >>Mrs Lewis<< , in reading and re-reading your “Child of the Sea.” When it appears in print — less enticing to the eye, perhaps, than your own graceful MS. — I shall endeavor to do it critical justice in full; but in the meantime permit me to say, briefly, that I think it well conducted as a whole — abounding in narrative passages of unusual force — but especially remarkable for the boldness and poetic fervor of its sentimental portions, where a very striking originality is manifested. The descriptions, throughout, are warmly imaginative. The versification could scarcely be improved. The conception of Zamen is unique — a creation in the best poetic understanding of the term. I most heartily congratulate you upon having accomplished a work which will live.

Yours most sincerely,

Edgar A. Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Anna Lewis — about late 1848

Dear Mrs Lewis —

Upon the whole I think this the most spirited poem you have written. If I were you, I would retain all the prose pretax.

You will observe that I have taken the liberty of making some suggestions in the body of the poem — the force of which, I think, would be much increased by the introduction of an occasional short line, for example: —

Hurtled by the blast.

Sadly fell his eye.

Heard her shrieks of wo.

As now they flock to Rome.

And to Palestine.

Woke him from his dream.

And God will guide thy bark.

And the sun will shine.

Is a throne to me.

Pours a Paradise.

Sheds its holy light.

Will I cling to thee.

These short lines should be “indented” — as for instance: —

So, to cheer thy desolation,

Will I cling to thee.”

Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Anna Lewis — May 17, 1849

Fordham — May 17 —

My dear friend,

I have not been well enough, lately, to copy the lines “For Annie” but will copy them to-day[.] In regard to the other matter, depend upon me — as in all respects you may, with implicit confidence[.] Please make a memorandum as explicit as possible — so that I may know precisely what you wish

Believe me Yours ever,

Edgar A Poe.

Mrs Stella Anna Lewis

Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Anna Lewis — July 7, 1849

Dearest Anna,

Give the enclosed speedily to my darling >>Anna.<< mother. It might get into wrong hands.

Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Anna Lewis — September 18, 1849

My dear, dear Mrs. Lewis —

My dear sister