Washington, D.C. Thanks Poe for an approving letter. Sends Poe a copy of his little book, which has received good notices except from Park Benjamin and Thomas Dunn English. [Jesse E.] Dow is prospering as doorkeeper to the House of Representatives.

Washington, D.C. Asks why Poe has not written for two months.

Washington, D.C. Sends a cryptograph partly deciphered in Poe's hand. Asks about various friends, including [Nathaniel P.] Willis, Park Benjamin, and [Jesse E.] Dow.

Washington, D.C. Thanks Poe for translating a cypher. Asks about possibility of publishing some biographical sketches of the writer which have been refused by Wiley and Putnam. Offers them to Poe for his journal [the Broadway Journal?]. News of friends.

Washington, D.C. Receives Poe's journal [the Broadway Journal?] regularly. Is pleased that Poe has published the writer's sketches of [John] Randolph and [William] Wirt. Asks for an autograph letter from Poe to exhibit. Is much interested in Biblical subjects.

Jubilee College, Robin's Nest Post-office, I.L. Lists the writer's works. Announces his intentions of taking orders in the Episcopal Church. Describes letters from Poe in his possession and offers them to Griswold with reservations. Asks Griswold to get his manuscript, "How I Came to Be Challenged," from Putnam's. Inquires about Charles Fenno Hoffman.

Jubilee College, Robin's Nest Post-office, I.L. Sends a selection of Poe's letters. Praises [Joseph Holt] Ingraham.

"A Fact in Relation to a Certain Physician, Versified."

[Montpelier, V.T.?] Asks if they wish to exchange with the [Green Mountain] Freeman.

Messenger Office, Richmond, V.A. Sends a short sketch of Miss [Susan Archer] Talley for Female Poets of America.

Richmond, V.A. Thanks Griswold for a copy of Female Poets of America and suggests sending one to Miss [Susan Archer] Talley.

Richmond, V.A. Sends two letters of [Philip Pendleton?] Cooke and a short statement on Poe's connection with the Allans. Comments on the writer's exclusion from Poets of America.

Richmond, V.A. Praises [Moses Drury] Hoge's Sermons and St. Leger Landon Carter's Nugau [1844]. Apologizes for the review of Poe's Works, [edited by Griswold, Willis and Lowell] which attacked the editors, and cites his disclaimer in the same issue [March, 1850] of the Southern Literary Messenger.

Richmond, V.A. Having no space in the October issue of the [Southern Literary] Messenger for a notice of Poe's Literati, he has called attention to the book in the Daily Whig, and encloses the "scrap." Asks Griswold to send him any foreign magazines and newspapers which are not needed, and to get him a set of Goupil & Co's prints.

Richmond, V.A. Asks where he can have a plate made for the cover of the [Southern Literary] Messenger in the style of the International [Magazine]. Encloses a short poem.

Richmond, V.A. Introduces Mr. M. S. Valentine, Jr.

Richmond, V.A. Has found a daguerrotype of a Stuart portrait of Mrs. Lewis of the Washington family which Griswold may want to use. Has sent some verse of Putnam's for publication but has heard nothing from it. Asks for Griswold's article on "the Bloomer question" and for [Philip P?] Cooke's "Turkey-Shooting in Virginia."

Richmond, V.A. Sends a poem which Griswold may wish to publish.

Messenger Office, Richmond, V.A. Has not received the promised three volumes of the International [Magazine]. Wishes to know program of the Mercantile Library Lectures. Wants to write and deliver a lecture on the "Obligations of Patriotism."

Richmond, V.A. Sends a piece of verse for the December International [Magazine]. Stringer and Townsend have not sent the three bound volumes of the magazine [the International?] promised by Griswold.