| Show ll f I r o oThey L h X They Th Strong St Side Sid S Sv Lights Light Upon U OI the t Daily D Life 0 v oft of the e Poet tO O oa O os O O O a 1 le lea e 1 III nun a recent cataloguing of n the Uie p lJ km kin klOk k C or books and ADd naru iii riots ts i the New York Public lit lib a I V A it number nu ber of the personal let leter er r f the poet Edgar Allen Ppe Pye to fo toh o h F 1 1 were 1 foun funa Iund i These letters have never been bem I Some Same of them lire re intensely ely nt pt Ming t ing throwing strong J S she l as rs t do upon the daily ure a of oC the UM ther r n ht hn has haH been judged judge jUdg d by foreign s s The rhe greatest greate t of American poets ft pw t to X of or several of the letters let er Which hiell H fI r r during the yeatS years ar 10 I Riven 1 dav Morning Nov 1445 u 83 E a Amity St Sti Stiv i 1 iv Ial o Mr Ir pot fOI rr r n lit ts first time Ume during two months I 1 ti i myself tHyself entirely myself my dread UH lUll ully k and depressed depre ed but still my spy Kif If i 1 i seem to have lIae Just awakened awa ed mo JIlt horrible dream In which all nil I I TJ a infusion and suffering I I ly t 1 the constant CO sense of ot your Kid Hindu I s and that of one or or two other i id i rate i ite friends I really bej beve eve thaI hat i 1 hate hae ha to been l n mad but indeed I Ipas pas i rid d abundant reason to b be so J I Jin Jh in ht r f i iri up my ny mind to a step t f Ich lOur uli iU i r sf ie rye me for the future from rum rom it i iM t the greater g ater portion of the trou ou h n hs Malt have beset t me rue ne I the I t IW I nave have need of the mo mot most mosta t ta a u to extricate myself from I I the into which I have I aray ari Y fallen f and my ct in writ rR um olt this n nets note te Js is once again to tois tob I J is I b g our ow nUI air aid d Of course I need not fa V 11 A you ou that my most urgent trou bio N hl i i il the want rf cl ready mone tn money on er I I find ind that thill v hat I saM iM to you OU about bout the prompt th 1 jf f g J Is J strictly correct Th hI no t trifling immediate relief would put it a on an excellent CX footing All Ati that thaI I 1 want te W Ume time In which hleb to about me and I 1 think that it is in your our i ov or to 1 me pIe this thia T I h b ve p already drawn dra n from Mr WI Wl K ky icy first firs 30 th en n 10 10 from Y urs elf J s i 1 Ion tun n R account of the Parnas us 20 yo when I went to Bos Inn 88 in all Mr Mrk Wilt Wiley k WS me yu Mt for Eor the poems 75 and a limiting knitting that 1500 1000 of the tales h ha have te i be bell been n okI W and that I am ani to re rf ret t eie ive 1 s r s tits a al eoj y he she amount which MU yu u named if J I remember admitting I this hr hp will one oe on 10 them hemin in all aU allM M 1 Deducting what I have received ih there re s a balance of 00 80 in my favor Tf If I understood you a few fe days ago ago aio Mr Jr V 11 W was to settle with me in Feb February ruan Xu Now o you will already have an an it m my request quest It is I that you t oui ask ak Mr w V to give me today in lieu lien li 11 f all olin farther claim lalm a certain sum um lIm whatever hate er he may think advisable Si dreadfully am urn I pressed that I 1 s j would willingly take even een the 80 fO tuU due in lien Hen of lf all farther de demand demand desand mand sand Cyan fian wait alt until February but butI I 1 am sure that you will do the best for m me that you can Please send Rend your answer to Si Ami Attu ty St at and believe me with the most md t te sincere e friendship and ardent graft gratl tuft tut Y urs rs EDGAR EDGAn A APOE TOE POE s y 0 g Thursday day Morning a Nor No ov IS 1 1845 1645 Mr IT I Ilar ar Mr I am still till dreadfully unwell U en and fear that 1 I hill hall bf be b very seriously 8 ill JIt Some Snipe mat matters orM o domestic dorne ic have ft v Vt algo alo 9 l bapP I deprive life O d t little nerg I have ha e left and I b bIf If retired to tn t v up the B Journal a zuid d dr dr r tire Ire to th tIM the country for six or perhaps A year as the sole sote of recruiting te my health ai ad d spirits It 15 it not post J ibie that yourself or Mr Matthews might ml ht give me me a triO trill for m my interest in the paper Or i 1 this cannot Iannot be effected might I ven I ture to 11 ask you gore for an advance of 50 iiO on n i th t 1 faith of the American Am rIcan Par nav u which I will wUl finish as 88 soon 1 possible pebble If you oil oti could oblige me in this manner I would w uld feel teel myself jm rJ dr r the i de obligation win Will you QU be so Kid kl as aa to reply by the fhe he bearer barer Most Mo t ly yours EDGAR A POE C t Q 1011 I authors who have had qualms of 1 cone i jIh n v because of the necessity sit for 01 in toying loving j press r agents agen or calling callin up ii te tf literary editors of the dally daily pai papers ers f may nay nn solace in this letter hT r 30 1546 hear Dear Mrs lemm men to me this tats morning hat some of If the papers Gapers had been speak speaking ing shout 8 rny tny Murders ers In n 1 th the Rue she could not DOt give me the the merely spying that you OU hid had told toli her hor hr r The Murders p the R M Mo MoWa was Wa sicken of or in the Paris Charivari s after a the issue of or the tale Je t in s Mag Ma April 1841 By he e n lo M pd ii letter from Stonehaven Scot Sool land JaM yoU ou wiil see that thai th the Valdemar 1 1 e still makes Inkes a talk and that thata a t pamphlet edition or Of It a t has been published d by b Cott t Co 0 of or London un and UMI ii the title 9 p u Mesmerism in Ar th thul ulo Mortis fortis It has hu fairly gone the 1 r ruun un N ts of he the London press commencing InK ing w with witt nh the Morning Post Poet The Month Montii I l ly I of Science etc gives it with the Ih title tit Th The Last Days of f M lI Valde Valdemar mar nai KM Kyt the author l th r jf jc the Las Lasi Con u lion of ol a Mes ea He elation I f y object ia is i en eK enclosing osing the Scotch let Jet ter nd nj the one ODe from tr l Miss Mies Barrett is isH to hI H ak you jou ou to do the Jae n t fa aver which tjust 1 at this moment be he of t may great grea ft It is s to stake a paragraph r two o for Cor soma somi one ODe of the city papers paper stet tat MH ng the facts herr here given en in con conn tn n with what you know about the th e t H ts rs in the Rue Morgue If th ins t s viii m not Ot give ve e you jou OU too much trouble insI T r Will ill be bt deeply d ply obliged bU If you think thin k t advisable there Is a no objection ob to toT T tr Copying any portion P of Miss Bs B s l etter Willis or Morris will m f in hi t st an itin hing you may RaY be he kind enough to t o x a rite n e but as the Rome Home Journal has al 1 aa early ty y said a goo good deal about me so some me ether i n r pap paper p would j be more prof rah Tru yours youn you POE 1 I v 0 0 In spite tl of th the positive statement that t the I Poe letters I tt have v lain unread read la I the archives chies of ot the New Ne York public li ti I Mury tr ry it t is hard to believe that the th e ir of the modern yellow Jour lour J IIa mat ai sch b l I did not noc get Ket hit hie ideas ideal from trout n f i the ne letter lett r Fordham March S I near Dear r Sir Str If you have ba T look looked over th tit e Yon on i article artele which I left wick wU Tour x ur brother yO you yin will h have Dae e fully lly fl per pet Its drift dritt I mean nean it t as ao a Rind kind of exercise se or e pert Pt in the plata plans ihle ble ivf or Tei verisimilar similar style Of course couse there t re is b not nit one ODe wora wore of truth in It mm m beginning to end eDd I thought that inch uch a I lt applied to the gold cI ex c uld uw not fall faU to affect ameet My onnion to I s that nine persons p out outi outten If 4 i ten tf It N P r among amons amor the best hest informed d Ill III 1 bell the rui rob quiz provided the thecle de e do of n nt t tank leak leI t out oat before pu ion iOD an i t that thus acting acUa as u a sudden sud u o if nf f course a very temporary heck n h k t t 1 he gold gol fever i t It wilt wRt create r te 1 stir tir wr me lne purpose e r I had t i pared the hoax hax for a Boston BostonIK weekly IK lied d the I where it wilt will l be quit quitt t 11 own ar i The proprietor gi gb ri rt 1 15 16 f t r r Ai a on can presentation I 1 to In hi h hie az rt nt her I l my m object in re rEc j rf err ng sir oU u t you ou U is js simply to tou tOj Ita it if u not venture to take I Jt It for W World orld If It so I nm M willing i I to 10 t ta r it t ioor in to fact whatever You u can ean afford i I I 1 tw IF It tie tte t If brat d lib libi ra i rc n attempt of If f the Hie kind or r sect r 1 H h 11 tri tor of Mr Mrs Ir Veal we WC weI wee l I e c i Q s 1 are permitted now and nd then to pe a Pit tone o of bunter In Robin son lion he n Cr Crusoe the design was far tar more W to please If Or excite than thau to deceive by veris in n which particular merely Sir Edward Seaward nar n r larel i te Is ls th the more ore skillful hook book In tn my aldemar Cape Cake Ca e which was credited by M I 7 many meaty I had not the slightest Idea that tiny any person peron should credit it as any thi mc more re than Char a magazine but bat Authere liege here the whole strength is paper laid out in I r am sun very much obliged oble to you for your y our reprint of Yours truly EDGAR A POE h r P SIf c S 17 Tf It y yoU U feel the h ast sll sh shy about b t the S 1 l make no hesitation in ic re it of c I urn um willing to admit that it is not a ti paper which every overy ev ry editor r would like to take the of f i merely q ad a contrib with a known P it if you the quiz Pipe do not let out the fire secre Evert Eert A Puy Duyckinck Esq |
