"The Raven"

"Note on D"

Thomas Ollive Mabbott[?]

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Manuscript

Manuscript note referring to six variant lines of "The Raven" in a 3 February 1845 letter from E.A. Poe to J. Augustus Shea. The letter was published in The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe--Volume I: 1824-1845, ed. J.W. Ostrom et al (1948-2008). Shea worked for the New-York Tribune, where "The Raven" appeared on February 4. The "D" refers to Mabbott's alphabetical-chronological sequencing of printings of "The Raven." The six lines in Poe's letter to Shea comprise Mabbott's text D; the Tribune printing is text E.

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.