EDGAR ALLAN POE TO FREDERICK W. THOMAS — ABOUT MARCH 3-17, 1849

 

I have represented —  —  — (Thomas Dunn English (?)) to you as merely an ambitious simpleton, anxious to get into society with the reputation of conducting a magazine which somebody behind the curtain always prevents him from quite damning with his stupidity; he is a knave and a beast. I cannot write any more for the Milliner’s Book, where T —  — n (Tuckerman) prints his feeble and very quietly made dilutions of other people’s reviews; and you know that —  —  — (The Literary World ) can afford to pay but little, though I am glad to do anything for a good fellow like —  —  — (Evert A. Duyckinck (?)). In this emergency I sell articles to the vulgar and trashy —  —  —  —  —  —  —  — (The Flag of Our Union (Boston)), for $5 a piece. I enclose my last, cut out, lest you should see by my sending the paper in what company I am forced to appear.