"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"Shrewsbury Chronicle Aug 22, 1834"
recto & verso
Details
Title
"Shrewsbury Chronicle Aug 22, 1834"
recto & verso
recto & verso
Creator
Unknown
Contributor
Thomas Ollive Mabbott, editor of the Shrewsbury Chronicle
Format
Manuscript
Description
Manuscript transcription of a newspaper article from the 22 August 1834 issue of the Ipswich Shrewsbury Chronicle. The story relayed in the article might have inspired some aspects of Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," though it is doubtful that he read this particular article.
According to Mabbott's introduction to his version of the tale the editor of the Chronicle copied the article for Mabbott. The transcription in the research file is in Mabbott's hand.
According to Mabbott's introduction to his version of the tale the editor of the Chronicle copied the article for Mabbott. The transcription in the research file is in Mabbott's hand.
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.