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Edgar Allan Poe’s letter pleading for $40 from a Philadelphia editor sells 173 years later for $125,000

Quoth the raven, “Sold for $125,125!”

A letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Robert Taylor Conrad, a Philadelphia lawyer, playwright, and editor of Graham's Magazine, was sold for $125,125 at an online auction by RR Auction of Boston on Oct. 7.
A letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Robert Taylor Conrad, a Philadelphia lawyer, playwright, and editor of Graham's Magazine, was sold for $125,125 at an online auction by RR Auction of Boston on Oct. 7.Read moreCourtesy of RR Auction