https://mabbottpoe.org/files/original/265a18acc28a88621bdffe23f0fbe202.jpg 6ce720cc250db28034f907fd417eeb6b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" Description An account of the resource Welcome to the research file on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Most of the items exhibited in this collection contributed to Mabbott's introduction to the tale, his account of textual variants, and the editorial notes in the Collected Works. To read Mabbott's introduction, list of printings, and notes, click <a href="https://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/tom2t043.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Ollive Mabbott, et al Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 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. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource The University of Iowa Digital Scholarship and Publication Studio; Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries; English Department, University of Iowa Relation A related resource Thomas Ollive Mabbott's Research Files for the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "1831 is titled Letter to Mr. - -" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edgar Allan Poe Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Maureen Cobb Mabbott Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photocopy of book Description An account of the resource Photocopy of pages 38-39 from "Letter to Mr. - - -," which served as the introduction to Poe's Poems (1831). Poe reprinted the introduction as "Letter to B - -" in the Southern Literary Messenger of July 1836. In the SLM version Poe ommitted a paragraph, as indicated in notes made in green ink on the photocopy. The brackets are in the book and were made by T.O. Mabbott. The marginalia in green and blue ink are in Maureen Mabbott's hand. As the note in the upper margin states, the photocopy comes from Mabbott's copy of the Harrison edition of Poe (1902). Harrison complicated matters by placing the SLM version among Poe's other prose introductions to his volumes of poetry instead of using "Letter to Mr. - - " as it appeared in Poems (1831). Mabbott bracketed two passages on page 39 that were used in the notes of his version of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." "As regards the greater truths" is quoted in note 29, and "He goes wrong by reason of his very profundity" is quoted in note 30. Both notes show us how Poe consistently argued that truth lies in surfaces rather than depths before he had Dupin echo his sentiments in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Relation A related resource Thomas Ollive Mabbott's Research Files for the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived 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.