Description
Complete January 1865 issue of American Notes & Queries, featuring the following article by Mabbott: Thomas Ollive Mabbott, "Poe Letter about 'The Raven,'" American Notes & Queries 3.5 (January 1965): 67. The letter is from Eli Bowen, editor of the Pennsylvania Columbia Spy, for which Poe wrote in 1844. Mabbott's brief article provides context for and a transcription of the letter, which Mabbott based on a transcript provided "in confidence" by James Howard Whitty, who was, among other things, a Poe scholar, editor, and collector.
Source
Papers of Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries; “The Raven,” in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. I: Poems, ed. T.O. Mabbott (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969), 350-374.
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