Text: Sarah H. Whitman to Edgar Allan Poe — about October 10, 1848


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[[. . . .]] How often I have heard men and even women say of you — “He has great intellectual power, but no principle — no moral sense.”


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Notes:

This one sentence is quoted in Poe’s letter in reply, dated October 18, 1848.


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[S:0 - MS, 18xx] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Misc - Letters - S. H. Whitman to Poe (RCL724)