My Dear Madam,Through some inadvertence at the Office of the B. Journal, I failed to receive your kind and altogether delightful note until this morning.
Thank you a thousand times for your sweet poem, and for the valued words of flattery which accompanied it.
Business, of late, has made of me so great a slave that I shall not be able to spend an evening with you until Thursday next.
[The signature from this letter is missing.]
[The identity of F. S. Osgood as the person addressed by this letter has been assigned by a note of "Poe to Mrs Osgood." The writer of this note is not Poe, but may be R. W. Griswold.]
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