BIB_ID
300590
Accession number
MA 325.1
Creator
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Display Date
Monday evening [1849 Sept. 10].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 8.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Miss Susan Ingram."
Date and location of writing from Mabbott.
High reserve.
Date and location of writing from Mabbott.
High reserve.
Provenance
Sale (New York, Anderson, 28 August 1906, lot 7446).
Summary
Presenting a fair copy of the poem Ulalume (MA 325), but fearing that she "will find the verses scarcely more intelligible to-day in my manuscript than last night in my recitation." Saying that he would "endeavor to explain ... what I really meant" had he not recalled Dr. Johnson's "rather just remarks about the folly of explaining what, if worth explanation, should explain itself."
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