Two very different manuscript lots provided the high spots of a September 3 sale in Westport, Connecticut. Enlarged for catalogue illustration, but actually displayed beneath the two portraits of the writer in the illustration right is a note in which Edgar Allan Poe acknowledges receipt of $3 from John Bisco, a sum paid to him in April 1845 on behalf of the Southern Literary Messenger.
The lot was sold at $60,000 (£45,250) by University Archives (25% buyer’s premium).