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Baltimore July 15th 1829     Dear Pa,     I have written you twice lately & have received no answer — I would not trouble you so often with my letters, but I am afraid that being up at the Byrd you might probably not have received them — I am very anxious to return home thro’ Washington where I have every hope of being appointed for Sepr & besides by being detained at Baltimore I am incurring unecessary [[sic]] expense as Grandmother is not in a situation to give me any accomodation [[sic]] —     I sometimes am afraid that you are angry & perhaps you have reason to be — but if you will but >>put<< a little more confidence in me — I will endeavor to deserve it —  [page 2:]     I am sure no one can be more anxious, or would do more towards helping myself than I would — if I had any means of doing it — without your assistance, I have none — I am anxious to abide by your directions, if I knew what they were —     You would relieve me from a great deal of anxiety by writing me soon — I think I have already had my share of trouble for one so young — I am Dear Pa Yours affectionately         Edgar A. Poe

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Notes: This letter is printed here with permission from the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia. A photographic facsimile of this letter was published in Mary Newton Stannard, Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished in the Valentine Museum Richmond, Virginia, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1925.   [S:1 - MS, 1829]