Edgar Allan Poe Letters



This virtual collection unites letters physically held in the University of Virginia Library Special Collections Department, Charlottesville, Va; the Poe Museum, Richmond, Va.; and the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Va.

Digital Versions prepared at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library, and as part of Rare Book School 1999.


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December 14 1826, Promisory Note signed by Edgar Allan Poe

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December 1, 1835 from Edgar Allan Poe to Beverly Tucker

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March 3, 1836 from Edgar Allan Poe to John C. McCabe

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June 21, 1841 from Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving
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September 1, 1841 from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas

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July 6, 1842 from Edgar Allan Poe to Dr. Thomas H. Chivers

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June 3, 1844 from Edgar Allan Poe to L.I. Cist

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December 19, 1845 from Chas G. Percival to Edgar Allan Poe

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October 6, 1865 from "Muddie"

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Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA.


May 1826 from Edgar Allan Poe, University of Virginia, to John Allan

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September 21, 1826 from Edgar Allan Poe, University of Virginia, to John Allan

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[March 19, 1827] from Edgar Allan Poe, The Court House Tavern, to John Allan

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[March 20, 1827] from Edgar Allan Poe, The Court House Tavern, to John Allan

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[March 20, 1827] from John Allan, Richmond, to Edgar Allan Poe

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December 1, 1828 from Edgar Allan Poe, Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, SC, to John Allan

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December 22, 1828 from Edgar Allan Poe, Fortress Monoe, VA, to John Allan

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February 4, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Fortress Monoe, VA, to John Allan

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March 10, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Fortress Monoe, VA, to John Allan

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May 18, 1829 from John Allan, Richmond, to Edgar Allan Poe

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May 20, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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May 29, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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June 25, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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July 15, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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July 26, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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August 4, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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August 10, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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October 30, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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November 12, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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November 18, 1829 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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May 3, 1830 from Edgar Allan Poe, Richmond, to Sergeant Samuel Graves

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June 28, 1830 from Edgar Allan Poe, West Point, to John Allan

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November 6, 1830 from Edgar Allan Poe, West Point, to John Allan

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January 3, 1831 from Edgar Allan Poe, West Point, to John Allan

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February 21, 1831 from Edgar Allan Poe, New York, to John Allan

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October 16, 1831 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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November 18, 1831 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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December 15, 1831 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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December 29, 1831 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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April 12, 1833 from Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, to John Allan

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The Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia


To Hiram Haines, August 19, 1836

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Letter to an unknown correspondent (fragment), 1836?

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Lines from Milton

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Lines from Shakespeare

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Letter to Thomas White, July 20, 1835

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Autobiographical "Memo"

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Leaf from "Siope"

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Portions of "Marginalia"

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Portion of an essay on "Frances Sargent Osgood"

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Portion of ""The Rationale of Verse"

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Letter to Lucy Dorothea Henry, June 20, 1843

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