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Balt:
Novr 18.
1831,
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My Dear
Pa,
I am in the greatest distress and have no other
friend on earth to apply to except yourself if you refuse to help me I
know not what I shall do. I was arrested eleven days ago for a debt
which I never expected to have to pay, and which was incurred as much
on Hy’s
account as on my own about two years ago.
I would rather have done any thing on earth than
apply to you again after your late kindness — but indeed I have no
other resource, and I am in bad health, and unable to undergo as much
hardships as formerly or I never would have asked you to give me
another cent.
If you will only send me this one time $80, by
Wednesday next, I will never forget your kindness & generosity. —
if you refuse God only knows what I shall do, & all my hopes &
prospects are ruined forever —
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Yours
affectionately
E A Poe
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I have made every exertion
but in vain. |
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