Text: Edgar Allan Poe to Jesse E. Dow — June 24, 1839 (LTR-78b)


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Phil. June 24th/39

My Dear Sir,

Will you be kind enough to send us some more of Old Ironsides as soon as you can — immediately if possible — as the compositors are waiting for it. What they have (”The Levanter”) will not make enough for an article.

Very truly your friend E A Poe

J. E. Dow Esqr


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Notes:

The article to which Poe refers was part of an extended series published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazineas “Sketches from the Log of Old Ironsides,” beginning in July 1839 (5:13-17) Most of the series is unsigned, with the only acknowledgment being: “By the author of ‘Old Ironsides off a Lee Shore’ “ (the earlier article having been printed in the Democratic Review of April 1839).


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[S:0 - MS, 18xx] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Letters - Poe to J. E. Dow (LTR78b/RCL186a)