"The Raven"

William Sartain and J.H. Witty, "Letters to the Editor" (1919); "Zoo Has Story Worthy of Poe: Raven Billed as Common Crow," The New York Times (13 April 1962): 37.

William Sartain, J.H. Whitty, and Unknown

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Photocopy of newspaper clippings

Photocopy of clippings from an unknown newspaper or periodical dating from early May 1919 and another clipping from the 13 April 1962 issue of The New York Times. The 1919 clipping captures two letters-to-the-editor that respond to a claim about the location of the composition of "The Raven." The first is by the painter William Sartain (1843-1924), who claims that Poe wrote "The Raven" in Philadelphia and was not on good terms with his first posthumous editor, Rufus W. Griswold. The second letter to the editor is by Poe editor and collector J.H. Whitty, who also weighs in on the debate about the location of "The Raven's" composition. The second clipping featured in this photocopy is a New York Times article reporting that a raven in the Central Park Zoo had been mislabeled as a crow.

Thomas Ollive Mabbott's Research Files for the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Papers of Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries; “The Raven,” in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. I: Poems, ed. T.O. Mabbott (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969), 350-374.