How far could a poem travel in 1849, with no telegraph across the ocean and no airmail?
All the way to Honolulu. On 26 May 1849, The Polynesian printed "The Raven" in full in its miscellany column, "The Olio", credited to "Edgar A. Poe, Esq." That was more than four years after the poem first appeared in New York, and about four months before Poe's death.
The printing shows how far the poem had travelled. Its precise route to Honolulu is not established by this page. The Honolulu editor also included an introduction credited to the New York American Review. It begins: "The following lines from a correspondent… appear to us one of the most felicitous specimens of unique rhyming which has for some time met our eye."
A detail for close readers: this Honolulu copy says "vainly I had tried to borrow", the older 1845 wording. Compare it with Saturday's Virginia printing from October 1849, which reads "sought." Each newspaper carried whichever version it happened to copy.