Text: Epes Sargent to Edgar Allan Poe — late 1841 (or early 1842) (?)

Notes:

This brief excerpt from what is presumed to have been a friendly letter written by Sargent to Poe, was printed in the biographical article on Poe in the Philadelphia Saturday Museum, March 4, 1843, p. 1, col. 4.  In quoting other letters in the same article, the use of “you” and “your” from the original letters, at least one of which survives in manuscript, was changed to “he” and “his” for the sake of context. The Sargent quote says “his varied . . . . ,” which has been restored here to the more probable “your varied . . . . .” The letter may be in relation to Poe’s favorable notice of Sargent in “An Appendix of Autographs,” Graham’s, January 1842.