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New-York : Feb. 9 -- 49

Mess. J. Sartain & co.

Gent.

I have the honor of sending you, with this note, a poem called "The Bells", about the length of my "Raven" -- in hope that it will meet your views for "The Union Magazine". Should it not please you, will you be so kind as to re-enclose it; and if I do not hear from you respecting it within ten days, I will conclude that you accept it, and draw on you, at 3 days' sight, for $15.

Very resply.

Edgar A. Poe

P. S. -- Should you print the poem, it will be necessary, (on account of the length of some of the lines & their peculiar arrangement) to run them entirely across the page, without the perpendicular rule.

[On the reverse, the letter is addressed to: "Mess. J. Sartain & co. [/] Phila."]

[First published, in facsimile, in Resources for American Literary Study, XXII, no. 2, 1996 p. 70-71. The manuscript is in the Maurice Family Papers (#3802), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.]

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