NATHANIEL P. WILLIS TO EDGAR ALLAN POE — NOVEMBER 12, 1847

 

Home Journal Office,
Nov. 12.

My Dear Poe, —

I could not find time possibly to go to the concert, but why did you not send the paragraph yourself. You knew of course that it would go in. I had a letter, not long since, from your sister enquiring where you were & supposing you had mov’d, I could not inform her. You seem as neglectful of your sister as I am of mine: but private letters are “the last ounce that breaks the camel’s back” of a literary man.

Yours very truly,
N. P. Willis