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A tale of the Ragged Mountains : autograph manuscript signed, [ca. 1843].

BIB_ID
127586
Accession number
MA 324
Creator
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Display Date
[ca. 1843].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item.
Notes
Dated to "probably 1843" by Mabbott.
Differing (in terms of punctuation and capitalization) from the tale as printed in Godey's.
High reserve.
The Ragged Mountains are a group of hills occupying about eighty square miles southwest of Charlottesville on the highway to Lynchburg, Va.
Written on several slips of paper (most ca. 12-13 inches long and approximately 3 3/4 inches wide) pasted together with sealing wax and rolled.
Provenance
George C. Thomas; purchased by Pierpont Morgan through the dealer George H. Richmond in 1909.