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[Text: John Ward Ostrom, "Revised Check List of the Correspondence of Edgar Allan Poe," Studies in the American Renaissance (edited by Joel Myerson), 1981, pp. 169-255. This information is reprinted here with permission of the copyright holder. It has been reformatted for HTML and updated where additional information is known.]
 

Revised Check List of
the Correspondence of Edgar Allan Poe
(Appendix: Sale Prices for Poe's Correspondence)

    This Appendix lists the sale prices in dollars of letters written by Poe or his correspondents. The first column gives the RCL number of the letter, the second column gives the price(s) brought in public or private sale(s); the third column gives the corresponding date(s) of the sale(s).
RCL          PRICES       YEARS

  28                2500           1944
                     3000           1954

  74                 200           1930s
                     5000           1950s

  98                 400           1935

106                 155           1916

126                 700           1938

139               1800           1934

146               2100           1929

151               8500           1978

164                 280           1925

l65a              3700           1971

165c             3500           1971

173              4500            1976

186                125            1929

195               1300           1947
                      850           1948

198                   45          1921
                     1500          1976

209a              5600          1963

221                 500           1926

237               1500           1947
                      850           1948

237a             1400            1970

257                 340           1924

260                  20            1896
                    1200            1929

268                 230            1924

304                 700            1948

311                 375            1911

318               3000            1944
                    2750            1954

325               1300            1930

329               1100            1927

356             17,000            1978

361                 550            1946

365                   50            1896
                     3500            1929

369         m      480           1909

379                  450           1922

391                  250           1916

399                  300           1911

407                  230           1919

447a               5200           1970

452                    85           1923

471                3700            1974

479b              7500            1975

482                  200            1917

484                  305            1917

485                  100            1923

505                  300            1918

514                  140            1922

530                    55            1953
                      3300            1972

537                 1500            1929

540                   285            1935

544                   100            1924

559 & 560     10,500           1977

560                   180            1909

567                     65            1922

575                   385            1935

583                   110            1920

594                     52            1914
                         750           1975

610                    125           1931

610a                  350           1947

611                    295           1919

622                    132           1916

636                    455           1922

640                    195           1921

647                  1800           1941

654                    210           1901
                     19,500           1929    (checklist text notes this as 19,000)

660                    700           1914
                        1750          1924

667                    300          1945

670                    560          1916

671                  3600           1927

694                     75      m   1894

697                   160            1937

700                 1700            1911

703                   600           1951

713                   750           1940

726                   110           1924

728                   300           1924

729                   500           1935

792                     35          1907
                        500           1935

803                 2000           1936

806                   121           1912

818                   211           1934

 
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