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[Text: Thomas H. Chivers to E. A. Poe - after August 2, 1845.]

My Dear Friend, – I leave with you a M.s. Play in Five Acts, which I wish you to read carefully – not to run over – and notice all those passages which you think praiseworthy – if any there be – in your Paper, and send the Numbers on to me in which you notice it. I wish you to read it carefully, for I think it has dramatic merit which you will like. I have three others, which were written at a later date. The article entitled “Luciferian Revelation,” was suggested by reading your “Mesmeric RevelationThis, I wish you to publish in your paper the very first thing, because I think well of it, and think will also. It gives a death blow to materialism. I send you also some poems, which you can publish in your paper also. But I wish you not to forget to read my printed poems carefully, and review them as you ought to do – for there are many good ones you have not noticed. The first column of the second page has a good passage about the soul. I am truly sorry to have to leave you, but I must go and see my precious wife and children, and see about my negroes. I will return soon, then, perhaps, you will go with me. Yours forever more. T. H. C.

You know that Lucifer means light-bringer – this is the sense in which I use it – not as the Devil. Isa, the one to whom I have addressed many of my Poems, was a beautiful being with whom I was acquainted in early youth, but who is now “on the golden throne beside the King of Heaven.”

God bless you   T. H. C.

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