"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"The American in England"
Details
Title
"The American in England"
Creator
Edgar Allan Poe
Contributor
Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Maureen Cobb Mabbott
Format
Photocopy of book
Description
Photocopy of pages 214-215 from The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. VIII: Literary Criticism--Vol. I, ed. James A. Harrison (New York: Thomas E. Crowell & Co., 1902). Poe's review of Alexander Slidell's The American in England (New York, 1835) originally appeared in the February 1836 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger. The passage bracketed in the photocopy refers to the proverb "truth lies at the bottom of a well," which Dupin contests in "Murders in the Rue Morgue." See note 30 in Mabbott's version of the tale.
The book is Mabbott's own copy of the Harrison edition of Poe, which he annotated in preparing his edition. His annotations are visible in the photocopy. The annotations in blue ink on the photocopy are in Maureen Mabbott's hand.
The book is Mabbott's own copy of the Harrison edition of Poe, which he annotated in preparing his edition. His annotations are visible in the photocopy. The annotations in blue ink on the photocopy are in Maureen 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.