JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL TO EDGAR ALLAN POE — ABOUT JANUARY 1, 1844 (OR 1845)

 

Happy New Year! I have been waiting for my volume to be out before I wrote to you again, and as it comes out a month later than I expected the delay in my letter has been proportionate. I am afraid that the copies for sale will get to Philadelphia before yours but I was out of town when they were sent off an, came too late to send you one. I now send one by Harnden to be left at the office of Graham’s magazine which I trust, will reach you. I know that there will be some sentiments in the volume which you will dislike but I trust not enough to lesson your esteem for the author. It would be a great pleasure to me if you would review it in Graham. ( . . . .) I shall send you my first volume a soon as I can go into Boston to get it. It is rather a publication of my exercise in learning to write poetry, than a collection of poems.