Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Anastatic printing of a letter to subscribers of the Southern Literary Messenger, New York, to Charles Campbell, 1845 Nov.

BIB_ID
127565
Accession number
MA 6043
Creator
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Display Date
1845 Nov.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (1 p., with autograph address) ; 25 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark ("New-York / Dec. 5 / 2 cts") and addressed in Poe's autograph to "Charles Campbell Esqe / Petersbury / Va."
Docketed.
Formerly housed with MA 644.
High reserve.
See collection files for notes by T.O. Mabbott (dated 17 February 1925) on the anastatic process and Poe's use of it.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Mrs. Leiper Moore Robinson (Mary Spotswood Campbell Robinson?) of Bowling Greene, Virginia, in 1911.
Summary
Soliciting a subscription for the Broadway Journal.