BIB_ID
127582
Accession number
MA 624
Creator
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Display Date
[1846-1847].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (8 p.), unbound ; size varies
Notes
High reserve.
Pollin notes that "it is probable that the bulk of the present manuscript ... dates from the latter part of 1846 and from the whole of 1847, although it is doubtful that Poe wrote more than one form or version of the notes during the two years involved."--Cf. Pollin, p. 154-155.
Written on two full sheets (4 p., 31.7 cm) and two fragmentary sheets (4 p., ca. 10-13.3 cm).
Pollin notes that "it is probable that the bulk of the present manuscript ... dates from the latter part of 1846 and from the whole of 1847, although it is doubtful that Poe wrote more than one form or version of the notes during the two years involved."--Cf. Pollin, p. 154-155.
Written on two full sheets (4 p., 31.7 cm) and two fragmentary sheets (4 p., ca. 10-13.3 cm).
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
Summary
Being notes for a projected book on American literary culture and writers, based on his series of articles "The Literati of New-York City" published in Godey's Lady's Book (May-October, 1846).
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