BIB_ID
127583
Accession number
MA 567
Creator
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Display Date
[1835].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (21 p.), unbound ; 33.2 cm
Notes
According to previous cataloging, Poe gave the manuscript to his patroness Mrs. Sarah Anna Lewis. Mabbott notes that she then gave one leaf to "an obscure collector" and the rest to John Ingram.
Date from Mabbott, 1969, p. 246 and 545.
High reserve.
The play was originally written on 13 leaves (of which 10 are the present manuscript). One leaf (the last) is now in the William H. Koester Collection at the University of Texas, and two leaves (the fifth and eleventh) have been lost.--Cf. Mabbott, 1969, p. 246.
Date from Mabbott, 1969, p. 246 and 545.
High reserve.
The play was originally written on 13 leaves (of which 10 are the present manuscript). One leaf (the last) is now in the William H. Koester Collection at the University of Texas, and two leaves (the fifth and eleventh) have been lost.--Cf. Mabbott, 1969, p. 246.
Provenance
Presented by the author to Mrs. Sarah Anna Lewis; given by her to John H. Ingram; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
Summary
With revisions and cancellations by the author throughout. Incorporating Poe's 1833 poem "The Coliseum" (first line: Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary) as a soliloquy in the eleventh and last scene.
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