EDWARD H. N PATTERSON TO EDGAR ALLAN POE — JUNE 7, 1849

 

(. . . .) Your request for an advance of Fifty dollars you will find I have complied with. Since I made you the proposition for publishing a 96 page Book at 5$, I have thought with much deliberation [and proposes, instead, a 64 page magazine at $3 a year] . . . . No thought is dearer to me than the hope of being united with you m the magazine enterprize; yet no thought is so oppressive as the probability of a failure — particularly as you represent that all your prospects, pecuniary as well as literary, are involved. . . . . Your title page . . . . I deem an advisable one. It carries with it . . . . the idea of stability — it writes its own name upon the tablets of success. How admirably, too, the motto aureus aligirando &c expresses the blending of the pleasing and fanciful with the useful and practical. I was sure your title would be something original and it is (. . . .)