Letter from Thomas Ollive Mabbott, New York, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1963 September 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying he is still "sweating blood over 'The Raven'" but he thinks it will be finished around the end of the month, and that he will visit Cambridge in October; saying he has had trouble with editors and that Harvard [University Press] wants to compress the material, and for him to provide page references for everything; saying he only provided references where he thought the reader might want to look up the source, and that he doesn't want to provide credit to anyone for a discovery that they have lifted from somewhere else; saying he will not be able to review Wagenknecht's book on Poe but that he has suggested a friend to do it; saying he will recommend the book as a good introductory work; saying Helen I. Tetlow is his correspondent and the closest person to Edgar Allen Poe since she remembers a man who talked with him; saying it's funny that Dr. English was the last of the literati, and funnier that he was a defender at the end; advising him not to worry about reviewers, and that books on Poe sell; saying "poor Miss Phillips is a different matter"; saying it's difficult to write a wholly satisfactory biography of Poe because he left no material; saying he is about to rewrite the preface to the Annals.