BIB_ID
127573
Accession number
MA 644.6
Creator
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Display Date
1841 July 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark, and addressed to "Dr. J. Evans Snodgrass / Baltimore / Md."
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
From the collection of E.C. Stedman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from G.D. Smith in 1911.
Summary
On literary matters and referencing his stories "Reproof of a Bird" and "A Descent Into the Maelstrom" (which he notes is neither as good nor as popular as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue").
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