BIB_ID
127579
Accession number
MA 644.1
Creator
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1827-1828].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
34 lines (Dreams) and 22 lines (The Lake).
Dating from Mabbott, p. 69 and 582.
High reserve.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts related to Edgar Allan Poe. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record (MA 644) for more information.
See Mabbott for textual variants.
The present pages were probably part of the so-called Wilmer Manuscript, which also included an autograph portion of Tamerlane (MA 570). The Wilmer Manuscript was made available by that family to to G.E. Woodberry for the tenth volume of the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's works in 1895.
Dating from Mabbott, p. 69 and 582.
High reserve.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts related to Edgar Allan Poe. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record (MA 644) for more information.
See Mabbott for textual variants.
The present pages were probably part of the so-called Wilmer Manuscript, which also included an autograph portion of Tamerlane (MA 570). The Wilmer Manuscript was made available by that family to to G.E. Woodberry for the tenth volume of the Stedman-Woodberry edition of Poe's works in 1895.
Provenance
Lambert A. Wilmer; by descent in his family until at least 1895; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Robert Fridenberg in 1910.
Summary
Autograph fair copies of the two poems, both differing slightly from the versions published in 1827. Paginated 27-30 by the author.
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