Record ID:
127576
Accession number:
MA 323
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 94.5 cm
Notes:
Written on 8 pieces of paper pasted end to end and mounted on silk.
Dated to July, 1849 in Mabbott.
The first draft of this poem was written in New York City, at 51 West 10th street (old number) the 5th residence plot beyond Grace Church in the summer of 1848. It was rewritten at least three times before it reached the form for first publication. T.O. Mabbott says that the present item is almost certainly the manuscript used for that version although slight changes appear in the printing.
High reserve.
Summary:
With Poe's revisions, including some very faint and nearly illegible penciled corrections.
Binding:
Formerly bound in green morocco.
Provenance:
Sold in the summer of 1849 by the author to John Sartain for publication in his Sartain's Union Magazine; acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
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