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[[. . . .]] I wish you to fall in with your broad-axe amidst this miserable literary trash which surrounds us. I believe you have the will, and I know well you have the ability. [[. . . .]]
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Notes:
This excerpt of the letter is all that is known. It was quoted in the biographical article on Poe printed in the Saturday Museum (Philadelphia) for March 4, 1843. Dr. Hawks was one of the editors of the New York Review, for which Poe wrote only one article, a review of Stephen’s Travels in Arabia Petraea, published in the issue for October 1837.
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[S:0 - MS, 18xx] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Misc - Letters - F. Hawks to Poe (RCL176)