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My love—my faith—should instil into your bosom a praeternatural calm. You would rest from care.... You would get better.... And if not, Helen,... if you died—then at least would I clasp your dear hand in death, and willingly—oh, joyfully ... go down with you into the night of the Grave.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), U.S. author. The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, letter, October 1, 1848, to Sarah Helen Whitman, ed. John Ward Ostrom (1966).

Wooing surrogates of his deceased mother.

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