"The Premature Burial"
"Willis The New Mirror Nov 18, 1843"
Details
Title
"Willis The New Mirror Nov 18, 1843"
Creator
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Contributor
Editorial assistant [Maureen Cobb Mabbott?]
Format
Photocopy of bound periodical
Description
Photocopy of an excerpt from Nathaniel Parker Willis, ["RE: 'The Life Preserving Coffin'"], The New Mirror (18 November 1843): 111. Willis's article apparently supplied Poe with material for "The Premature Burial." See notes 7, 10, and 15 in Mabbott's version of the tale.
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 Premature Burial,” in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. III: Tales and Sketches, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978), 953-972.