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[[. . . .]]
You compose with such astonishing facility that you can easily furnish me, quite soon enough, a poem that shall be equal to my reputation. For the love of God I beseech you to help me in this extremity.
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Notes:
This fragment of a letter is quoted by Griswold in his infamous “Memoir” from The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe (1850), vol. III, on page xxii. In the later versions of the Griswold edition (1853-1871), it appears in vol I, on page xxxviii. According to Griswold, the poem she attempted, but did not complete, was “Lulin, or the Diamond Fay.”
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[S:0 - MS, 18xx] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Letters - Poe to F. S. Osgood (LTR210a/RCL571a)