"The Premature Burial"
"asphyxia"
recto & verso
Details
Title
"asphyxia"
recto & verso
recto & verso
Creator
Thomas Ollive Mabbott
Format
Manuscript
Description
Manuscript notes on Poe's "The Premature Burial." The note on "asphyxia" pertains to notes 7 and 15 in Mabbott's version of the tale. The notes trace Poe's use of the term to a November 1843 article by Nathaniel Parker Willis. The citation of The Rover refers to the article titled "Burying Alive" from that same periodical, a photocopy of which is in this research file. The note on the verso determines the tale's date of composition, which ended up in Mabbott's introduction to his version of the tale.
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 Premature Burial,” in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. III: Tales and Sketches, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978), 953-972.