"The Raven"

"'In the year 1847...'" [from History of the Theological Seminary in Virginia]
 recto & verso

Rev. Arthur Barksdale Kinsolving

Maureen Cobb Mabbott

Manuscript

Manuscript transcription of an excerpt from section X of History of the Theological Seminary of Virginia, recounting Poe's recitation of "The Raven" at the "final exercises" in 1847. The handwriting appears to be Maureen Cobb Mabbott's. The incident is not mentioned in T.O. Mabbott's introduction or notes to "The Raven."

Thomas Ollive Mabbott's Research Files for the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

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.