He discusses his plans to marry his childhood sweetheart Sarah Elmira Royster with a stranger taking the same steamboat, who suggests that he meet with a few potential investors for his planned magazine The Stylus. Though Poe had intended only to pass through Baltimore, he agrees to meet the investors who, one by one, turn down his request for funding.
Poe discusses his plan to marry Sarah Elmira Royster, his childhood sweetheart, with a stranger on the same steamboat who suggests meeting potential investors for his magazine The Stylus. Despite intending only to pass through Baltimore, Poe agrees to meet these investors, all of whom decline his funding request.