BIB_ID
127572
Accession number
MA 991
Creator
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Display Date
[1849 Feb. 8].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1924.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 14-14.8 cm
Notes
Dating and localization from Ostrom.
Formerly bound with MA 644.
High reserve.
Letter is incomplete; about 1/4 of the top of the sheet has been cut away. See Ostrom for full text of the letter.
Formerly bound with MA 644.
High reserve.
Letter is incomplete; about 1/4 of the top of the sheet has been cut away. See Ostrom for full text of the letter.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Lathrop C. Harper in 1924.
Summary
Referring to his poem "The Bells" and to his story "Hop-Frog." Wishing she could give her opinion on "The Bells," noting that he "hardly ever knew any one with a keener discrimination in regard to what is really poetical."
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