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Edgar Allan Poe’s letter pleading for $40 from a Philadelphia editor sells for $125,000 (www.inquirer.com)

The letter dated August 31, 1847, was addressed to Robert Taylor Conrad, a Philadelphia lawyer, playwright and editor of the popular Graham’s Magazine, for which Poe wrote and served as its literary editor.

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