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Text: Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan — November 12, 1829







Balto   Nov: 12th 1829

    Dear Pa,
 
    I wrote you about a fortnight ago and as I have not heard from you, I was afraid you had forgotten me —
 
    I would not trouble you so often if I was not extremely pinched — I am almost without clothes — and, as I board by the month, the lady with whom I board is anxious for hey [[sic]] money — I have not had any (you know) since the middle of August —
 
    I hope the letter I wrote last was received in which you will see that I have cleared myself from any censure of neglect as regards W. P. —
 
    Hoping that you will not forget to write as soon as you receive this[.]

I am   Dear Pa
Yours affectionately
        Edgar A Poe







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 A photographic facsimile of this letter was published in Mary Newton Stannard, Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished in the Valentine Museum Richmond, Virginia, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1925.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]