"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"The Macmillan Book of Proverbs"
recto & verso
Details
Title
"The Macmillan Book of Proverbs"
recto & verso
recto & verso
Creator
Burton Stevenson
Contributor
Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Maureen Cobb Mabbott
Format
Photocopy of book
Description
Photocopy of pages 2393-2394 from The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Familiar Phrases, ed. Burton Stevenson (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948). The proverb of interest is: "Truth lies at the bottom of a well," attributed to Heraclitus as well as Democritus and others. In "Murders in the Rue Morgue" Dupin implicitly responds to the proverb when he says: "Truth is not always in a well."
The marginalia appears to be in Maureen Mabbott's hand. Ini any case the handwriting is not T.O. Mabbott's, though he may have made the arrows and brackets in red ink.
The marginalia appears to be in Maureen Mabbott's hand. Ini any case the handwriting is not T.O. Mabbott's, though he may have made the arrows and brackets in red ink.
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.