The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe [1517]
I will thank you to ask Mr. White to procure me a copy of Burke’s works as published in 1834, by Dearborn of New York, in three volumes. I wish him to have them lettered on the back near the bottom with the word Ardmore. I will send him the money for them and the new copy of the Messenger at once.
Respectfully, & with the best wishes
Your obedt servt.
(Beverley Tucker.)
Here are the lines. I think you will find them rugged enough.
Edgar Allan Poe to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker — May 2, 1836
Richmond May 2. 1836.
Dear Sir,
At Mr White’s request I write to apologise for the omission of your verses “To a Coquette” in the present number of the Messenger. Upon making up the form containing them it was found impossible to get both the pieces in, and their connection one with the other rendered it desirable not to separate them — they were therefore left for the May number.
I must also myself beg your pardon for making a few immaterial alterations in your article on Slavery, with a view of so condensing it as to get it in the space remaining at the end of the number. One very excellent passage in relation to the experience of a sick bed has been, necessarily, omitted altogether.
It would give me great pleasure to hear your opinion of the February, and of the April number of the Messenger — I mean of the Editorial articles. It is needless for me to say that I value your good opinion, and wish to profit by your counsel.
Please present my best respects to Professor Dew.
With the highest esteem
Yr Ob. St
Edgar A Poe
Will you ask Mr Saunders what has become of the article he promised us?
TUCKERMAN, HENRY THEODORE
Henry Theodore Tuckerman to Edgar Allan Poe — before December 16, 1842
(. . . .) if Mr Poe would condescend to furnish more quiet articles he would be a most desirable correspondent. (. . . .)
TUTT, MRS. ELIZABETH REBECCA
Edgar Allan Poe to Elizabeth R. Tutt — July 7, 1842
July 7, 1842
(. . . .) My dear little wife grew much better from the very first day after taking the Jew’s Beer. It seemed to have the most instantaneous and miraculous effect. She had been dreadfully weakened, as you know, by continual night-perspirations; but the very night on which she first took the Beer she missed her usual one, and had them no more until an accident occurred by which we got out of Beer, and could not replenish our stock for three days. In this interval the perspirations returned, and her cough, which had almost ceased, came back. Upon procurring the Beer again, however, she grew better at once, and became in a short time quite strong and well. About ten days ago, however, I was obliged to go on to New York on business which absolutely required my personal attendance, and no sooner had I turned my back than she began to fret (. . . .) because she did not hear from me twice a day, she became nearly crasy (sic), and in spite of all Muddy could do, she would neither eat or sleep (. . . .) I will never leave her again, as long as I live, for more than six hours at a time. What it is to be pestered with a wife!
(. . . .) I myself am quite well (. . . .) and doing well, although I have resigned the editorship of “Graham’s Magazine” (. . . .)
Edgar A. Poe.
Notes:
In a curious little pamphlet called “Receipts for Family Medicines that will Cure All Ills that Flesh is Heir to,” by Mrs. A. W. Chantry (Philadelphia: Duross Brothers, 1866), appears (on p. 8) the following recipe for Jews’ Beer: “Take Water, 3 quarts; Wheat Bran, 1 quart; Tar, 1 pint; Honey, half a pint; simmer together three hours, and when cold, add a pint of brewers’ Yeast; let it stand thrirty-six hours, and bottle it; a wineglassfull three or four times a day. It has cured many in the first stage of consumption. Try it, no matter how bad you are;