# The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 9, August, 1836

Author: Various; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74083

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Southern+Literary+Messenger%2C+Vol.+II.%2C+No.+9%2C+August%2C+1836+Various%3B+Poe&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_My Dear Madam_,—Under that most severe visitation of Divine Providence, which it is your fate to suffer, I well know how worse than useless—how almost cruel and insulting may appear any mention of comfort, or consolation on the part of a friend. I have none such to offer: yet I cannot resist the feeling which impels me, at this awful moment, to speak to you: to remind you that our Heavenly Father chasteneth whom he loveth; that_ his_ eye is upon us, who died for our sins; who, having partaken of our nature, looks with pity upon its errors and its sufferings, and offers to our acceptance a sure and eternal refuge from the calamities of this life and of the next. It is he who calls upon us...

## Chapters

- [LETTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/2/index.md)
- [chapter 15. Many of the chapters commence in a similar strain, and](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/4/index.md)
- [LETTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/1/index.md)
- [LETTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/7/index.md)
- [LETTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/9/index.md)
- [LETTER XXXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/12/index.md)
- [LETTER XXXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/15/index.md)
- [LETTER XXXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/11/index.md)
- [LETTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/6/index.md)
- [LETTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/10/index.md)
- [LETTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/8/index.md)
- [LETTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/5/index.md)
- [LETTER XXXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/14/index.md)
- [LETTER XXXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/13/index.md)
- [chapter 14—or “_Leaving_ Rolfe to attend to his profession, and](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-southern-literary-messenger-vol-ii-no-9-august-1836-74083/chapters/3/index.md)