Record ID:
127582
Accession number:
MA 624
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description:
1 item (8 p.), unbound ; size varies
Notes:
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.
High reserve.
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).
Provenance:
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
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