"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"A Wonderful Monkey of Liverpool, who turn'd Barber"
recto & verso
Details
Title
"A Wonderful Monkey of Liverpool, who turn'd Barber"
recto & verso
recto & verso
Creator
Unknown
Contributor
Thomas Ollive Mabbott
Format
Broadside, with typed note
Description
Broadside relaying the story of the monkey barber, with a typed note by Mabbott on the verso. Mabbott refers to the broadside in the introduction to his version of the tale to demonstrate that stories of primates attempting to shave unsuspecting customers circulated widely in the early-mid nineteenth century.
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.