![]() The tale was reprinted in Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal of November 30, 1844, with the following * The revision for the publication of “The Purloined Letter” in the Tales ofġ845 was moderate but skillful, and the story was hardly changed at all in the J. Interlineations and erasures” - whereas most of his printer's copy was carefully prepared and unusually clean. ![]() Carey, the publisher, requesting a proof, because “the MS had many The story was apparently hastily completed for the annual in which it was first printed. ” in Poems (1831) in a review of Alexander Slidell's An American inĮngland in the Southern Literary Messenger, February 1836 and in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” at n. No exact source for Poe's plot has been pointed out, but Poe remarked on not seeking truth in a well in his ![]() Its great merit lies in the fascination of the purely intellectual plot, and in the ‘The Gift’ is perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination.” Many judicious critics have agreed, some evenĬonsidering it the best of all Poe's stories. Lowell on Jthat “ ‘The Purloined Letter,’ forthcoming in
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