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[[. . . .]] There is no place where I shall be more desirous of seeing my humble writings than in the publication you so ably support and conduct. It is full of sound, good literature, and its frank, open, independent manliness of spirit, is characteristic of the land it hails from. [[. . . .]]
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Notes:
This brief excerpt from Halleck’s letter was printed, along with similar comments from various other writers, in the supplement to the Southern Literary Messenger for July 1836.
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[S:0 - MS, 18xx] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Misc - Letters - F. Halleck to Poe (RCL148b)