BIB_ID
127575
Accession number
MA 620
Creator
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Display Date
[1849 July].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 50.3 x 21 cm
Notes
Dated to "early July 1849" by Mabbott.
High reserve.
Marked "$5 / paid" on the verso.
Written on two sheets of blue lined paper pasted together.
High reserve.
Marked "$5 / paid" on the verso.
Written on two sheets of blue lined paper pasted together.
Provenance
Sold by the author in early July, 1849 to John Sartain for publication in his Sartain's Union Magazine; acquired in 1850 by an unidentified collector from John S. Hart, editor of Sartain's Union Magazine, and in his possession until at least 1897; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer George H. Richmond in 1909.
Summary
A fair copy of the poem.
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