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West
Point
Novr 6th 1830
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Dear
Sir,
I would have written you long before but did not
know where my letters would reach you. I was greatly in hopes you would
have come on to W. Point while you were in N. York, and was very much
dissapointed [[sic]] when I
heard you had gone on home without letting me
hear from you. I have a very excellent standing in my class — in the
first section in every thing and have great hopes of doing well. I have
spent my time very pleasantly hitherto — but the study requisite is
incessant, and the discipline exceedingly rigid. I have seen Genl Scott
here since I came, and he was very polite and attentive — I am very
much pleased with Colonel Thayer, and indeed with every thing at the
institution —
If you would be so kind as to send me on a Box of
Mathematical Instruments, and a copy of the [page 2:] Cambridge
Mathematics, you would confer a great favor upon me and render my
situation much more comfortable, or forward to Col: Thayer the means of
obtaining them; for as I have no deposit, my more necessary
expenditures have run me into debt.
Please give my respects to Mrs
A, and to Mr and Mrs
Jas Galt and Miss V.
Mr
Cunningham was also on here some time since, and
Mr J.
Chevalie and I was indeed very much in hopes that the beauty of
the river would have tempted yourself and Mr
and Mrs Jas Galt to have
paid us a visit.
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Yours
affectionately
Edgar A Poe
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