https://mabbottpoe.org/files/original/27446030acdb6b5343b4e27aac9854c4.jpg 44308472e0243281687c45791dbdf85e 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 "Letters on Natural Magic addressed to Sir Walter Scott" / "Woodberry (1909) I, 178" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource David Brewster Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Maureen Cobb Mabbott, editorial assistants Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photocopy of book, typewritten note Description An account of the resource Photocopy of pages 24 and 25 from Sir David Brewster's Letters on Natural Magic (1832). As Mabbott points out in note 30 of his version of "Murders in the Rue Morgue," Dupin's assertion that indirect vision allows for keener perception than direct vision was supported by early nineteenth-century optic science, specifically by John Herschel and James South, whose 1824 Royal Society of London lecture on optics David Brewster quoted in his Treatise on Optics (1833) and echoed (but did not quote) even eariler in his Optics (1828) and Letters on Natural Magic (1832). Mabbott made double lines next to the relevant passage in the margins of the photocopied pages from Letters. The marginalia added to the photocopy is in Maureen Mabbott's handwriting. The attached typed note relates to Poe's famous essay "Maelzel's Chess Player," which first appeared in the April 1836 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger. It quotes a passage about the essay from G.E. Woodberry's 1909 biography of Poe. The penciled marginalia below the typed passage relates to Poe's "critical notice" of William Godwin's Lives of the Necromancers in the December 1835 issue of SLM and also to William K. Wimsatt, "Poe and the Chess Automaton" American Literature 11.2 (May 1939): 138-151. 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.