Edgar Allen Poe wrote letter to publisher apologising for drunkenness

telegraph.co.uk
Mar. 5, 2009
Edgar Allen Poe wrote to his publishers pleading with them to buy his work but ignore his drunken encounter with him according to a newly revealed letter.
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