"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"The Case of Monsieur Poe pp. 201-255"
Details
Title
"The Case of Monsieur Poe pp. 201-255"
Creator
Laura Riding
Contributor
Thomas Ollive Mabbott, editorial assistant
Format
Photocopy of book
Description
Photocopy of pages 216-221 from Laura Riding's "The Case of Monsieur Poe" in Contemporaries and Snobs (Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday & Co., 1928), 201-255. Mabbott might have been interested in Riding's criticism of innacuracies and inconsistencies in "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and other tales by Poe. If so, he did not take her criticisms too seriously because page 217 is cut off by the photocopier, and he didn't cite Riding's essay in his version of the tale. In fact, he might not have considered including her in the first place, as the marginalia is not his handwriting.
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.