Text: Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — November 6, 1830 (LTR-027)

West Point
Nov^r 6^th 1830

Dear Sir,

I would have written you long before but did not know where my letters would reach you. I was greatly in hopes you would have come on to W. Point while you were in N. York, and was very much dissapointed [[sic]] when I heard you had gone on home without letting me hear from you. I have a very excellent standing in my class — in the first section in every thing and have great hopes of doing well. I have spent my time very pleasantly hitherto — but the study requisite is incessant, and the discipline exceedingly rigid. I have seen Gen^l Scott here since I came, and he was very polite and attentive — I am very much pleased with Colonel Thayer, and indeed with every thing at the institution —

If you would be so kind as to send me on a Box of Mathematical Instruments, and a copy of the [page 2:] Cambridge Mathematics, you would confer a great favor upon me and render my situation much more comfortable, or forward to Col: Thayer the means of obtaining them; for as I have no deposit, my more necessary expenditures have run me into debt.

Please give my respects to M^rs A, and to M^r and M^rs Jas Galt and Miss V.

M^r Cunningham was also on here some time since, and M^r J. Chevalie and I was indeed very much in hopes that the beauty of the river would have tempted yourself and M^r and M^rs Jas Galt to have paid us a visit.

Yours affectionately
Edgar A Poe