BIB_ID
116168
Accession number
MA 644.8
Creator
Thompson, John Reuben, 1823-1873.
Display Date
1849 Nov. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 cm + envelope.
Notes
Envelope with postmark and addressed "To E.H.N., Patterson / Editor of the Oquawka Spectator / Oquawka / Illinois."
High reserve.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts related to Edgar Allan Poe. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record (MA 644) for more information.
High reserve.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts related to Edgar Allan Poe. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record (MA 644) for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Robert Fridenberg in 1910.
Summary
Giving an account of the last six months of Edgar Allan Poe's life. Stating that his acquaintance with Poe began in the Spring of 1848, and that he met him after he had been "a fortnight in a debauch in one of the lowest haunts of vice upon the wharves of the city." Describing his efforts to "restrain his excesses and to relieve ... his immediate wants." Reporting that "he spoke of himself as the victim of a pre-ordained damnation, as l'ame perdue, a soul lost beyond all hope of redemption," and that he died "of delerium from drunkenness."
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