So just how did those letters from the year 2848 make their way back to Poe if not for time travel?
—Michael Main
To the Editors of the Lady’s Book:—

I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which I hope you will be able to comprehend rather more distinctly than I do myself. It is a translation, by my friend, Martin Van Buren Mavis, (sometimes called the “Toughkeepsie Seer,”) of an odd-looking MS. which I found, about a year ago, tightly corked up in a jug floating in the Mare Tenebrarum—a sea well described by the Nubian geographer, but seldom visited now-a-days, except for the transcendentalists and divers for crotchets.

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  1. “Mellonta Tauta” by Edgar Allan Poe, in Godey’s Lady’s Book, February 1849.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Edgar Allan Poe