"The Raven"
"Dear Maureen: Your letter of the 14th..." [Elizabeth Browning to Robert Browning, November 28, 1845]
Details
Title
"Dear Maureen: Your letter of the 14th..." [Elizabeth Browning to Robert Browning, November 28, 1845]
Creator
Eleanor D. Kewer
Contributor
Elizabeth Browning
Format
Manuscript on photocopy
Description
Photocopies of pages 296-299 from the forthcoming (at the time) edition of the correspondence of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with a manuscript note from Eleanor Kewer, editor at Harvard University Press, to Maureen Mabbott. Kewer has indicated the passages of interest with two vertical lines on pages 297-99. See T.O. Mabbott's introduction to the "The Raven" for his account of Barrett's "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" and its influence on Poe's poem.
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 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.