Text: Richard Beale Davis, “My First Correspondence With Poe,” Chivers' Life of Poe, 1952, p. 38

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MY FIRST CORRESPONDENCE WITH POE.

My first correspondence with Edgar A. Poe commenced in °1842. was then in Middletown, Connecticut. It was while he was Editor of Graham's Magazine. I had sent him a MS. role of eight or ten Poems for the Magazine, among which were Mary's Lament for Shelley Lost at Sea; On Hearing the Ringing of a Bell; The New Moon; The Mother's Lament on the Death of Her Child; The Heavenly Vision, &c; the reception of which he acknowledged in the following beautiful letter: (41) °

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