Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1831 November 18

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849

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Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1831 November 18
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849


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Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1831 November 18
Edgar Allan Poe

Source copy consulted: Valentine Museum manuscript

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Published: 1831-11-18


English nonfiction prose masculine Special Collections LCSH
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    Summary

         Manuscript, Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia; Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan written from jail, requesting financial assistance with a debt.

    Envelope

         


    John Allan Esqr
    Richmond
    VA


    Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, November 18, 1831
    Manuscript, Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia.

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    Balt:
    Nov:r 18. 1831,

    My Dear Pa,


         I am in the greatest distress and have
    no other friend on earth to apply to except yourself
    if you refuse to help me I know not what
    I shall do. I was arrested eleven days ago
    for a debt which I never expected to have
    to pay, and which was incurred as much
    on Hy's. account as on my own about
    two years ago.

         I would rather have done any thing on
    earth than apply to you again after your
    late kindness -- but indeed I have no
    other resource, and I am in bad health,
    and unable to undergo as much hardships
    as formerly or I never would have asked
    you to give me another cent.

         If you will only send me this one time
    $80, by Wednesday next, I will never
    forget your kindness & generosity.-if
    you refuse God only knows what I
    shall do, & all my hopes & prospects are
    ruined forever -


    'Yours affectionaby

    E A Poe


    I have made every exertion but in vain.

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