Text: Francis Lieber to Edgar Allan Poe — June 28, 1836


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I should not hesitate in placing the “Messenger” decidedly at the head of our periodicals, nor do I hesitate in expressing that opinion freely on all occasions. It is gradually growing in the public estimation, and under your conduct, and with your contributions, must soon, if it is not already, be known all over the land.


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Notes:

This excerpt is taken from the letter as it was printed in the supplement of the Southern Literary Messenger for August 1836. Ostrom calls it “an epistolary article.” In preparing his long-proposed edition of letters to Poe, Mabbott notes, “This is really a contribution to the magazine. Only the small personal material need be reprinted.”


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[S:0 - MS, 18xx] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Misc - Letters - F. Lieber to Poe (RCL153)