"Little Children."

South Attleborough, M.A. Gives extracts from the writer's poems. Asks for Poe's friendship.

South Attleborough, M.A. Discusses the state of American literature; offers to help in the "overthrow of Humbug." Mentions his poverty.

South Attleborough, M.A. Asks Poe to recommend reading, and asks advice about how and where to publish his poems.

South Attleborough, M.A. Thanks Poe for a criticism of the writer's poem "Bunker's Hill." Mentions the Broadway Journal. Praises Poe's "Haunted Palace."

South Attleborough, M.A. Encloses a poem for the Broadway Journal. Asks Poe's opinion of [James Henry] Leigh Hunt's anthology Imagination and Fancy.

South Attleborough, M.A. Describes the writer's life and writing. Sends a poem. Asks Griswold's advice about what to read, and how to publish his work.

South Attleborough, M.A. Inquires about some numbers of the Broadway Journal, ordered but not received.

New York. Inquires about three tales he has sent.

Mobile, A.L. Explains the writer's disagreement with Mr. Milwood. Mentions a review of one of his books [title indecipherable] in the Ch[urchman's?] Monthly.

Mobile, A.L. Has sent payment of balance due. Asks Hooker to publish his "Adina" [The Prince of the House of the David, published by Pudney and Russell, New York 1855].

London, Eng. Assures Griswold of the firm's continued interest in publishing his volume of American poetry. Expresses regret for his legal entanglements.

London. Sends a copy of the new American Magazine.

New York. "Stanzas." ("In sad procession pass my days,...")

"I mourn that this wold changes not...," "Ubi Amor, ibi Fides," "A Lamentation," "A Vesper," "listen, what sounds are these...," "Girl-Deams," "A fountain in a crowded street...," "Benedetta" (printed clipping: "From the Cambridge Chronicle").

New Brunswick. Corrects a mistake concerning the writer's family in Griswold's Republican Court.

U.S.S. Mississippi, Norfolk, V.A. Thanks Griswold for his attention to the writer's poem, to be published in the Union Magazine.

New York. Encloses two poems of [Arthur Cleveland] Coxe, "An Ode from Sophocles" and "An Extract from an Unpublished Canto of St. Jonathan." Discusses publication of some of Coxe's minor pieces in The Southern Literary Messenger, and asks an opportunity to revise his sketch of Coxe's life.

[20 Nassau St.?] Information concerning picture of Mrs. [Sarah Van Brugh (Livingston)] Jay for The Republican Court.

[20 Nassau St.?] Information concerning papers which may be useful to Griswold.