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[Text: Edgar Allan Poe to James Russell Lowell - November 16, 1842.]


Dr Sir,

Learning your design of commencing a Magazine, in Boston, upon the first of January next, I take the liberty of asking whether some arrangement might not be made, by which I should become a regular contributor.

I should be glad to furnish a short article each month--of such character as might be suggested by yourself--and upon such terms as you could afford "in the beginning".

That your success will be marked and permanent I will not doubt. At all events, I most sincerely wish you well; for no man in America has excited in me so much of admiration--and, therefore, none so much of respect and esteem--as the author of "Rosaline".

May I hope to hear from you at your leisure? In the meantime, believe me,

James Russell Lowell Esqre

Philadelphia Novem: 16. 1842.

Most Cordially yours
Edgar Allan Poe
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