Description
Photocopy (negative) of an excerpt from Poe's "Philosophy of Composition," as it appeared in Graham's Magazine of April 1846. The poet's essay contains quotations from "The Raven." The "M" in the right margin of the first image refers to Mabbott's alphabetical-chronological sequencing of printings of "The Raven."
Source
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.
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