"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"Dupin lived in false nighttime..."
Details
Title
"Dupin lived in false nighttime..."
Creator
Thomas Ollive Mabbott
Contributor
Maureen Cobb Mabbott
Format
Manuscript
Description
Manuscript scrap relating to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." The note beginning "Dupin lived in false nighttime" refers to the unnamed narrator's comment about Auguste Dupin (and, by way of influence, the narrator's) being "enamored of the Night for her own sake," so that, when night wasn't with them, they would "counterfeit her presence." See also note 6 in Mabbott's version of the tale.
The handwriting is T.O. Mabbott's. The word "murders" in red ink in the upper right corner of the scrap is in Maureen Cobb Mabbott's hand.
The handwriting is T.O. Mabbott's. The word "murders" in red ink in the upper right corner of the scrap is in Maureen Cobb Mabbott's hand.
Relation
Thomas Ollive Mabbott's Research Files for the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Source
Papers of Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries; "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. II: Tales and Sketches, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978), 521-574.