Text: James A. Harrison, “Request for Banns of Marriage,” The Last Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman (1909), p. 46

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[A copy of the request for the Banns of Marriage between Edgar A. Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman: found among Mrs. Whitman's papers.]

WILL Dr. Crocker have the kindness to publish the banns of matrimony between Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman and myself, on Sunday and on Monday. When we have decided on the day of marriage we will inform you, and will thank you to perform the ceremony.(1)

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[The following footnote appears at the bottom of page 46:]

1. Dr. Wm. F. Channing had the original of this. — C. F. D.