EDGAR ALLAN POE TO FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD — OCTOBER 1845
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.)