"The Raven"
"'The Raven' by Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman"
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Details
Title
"'The Raven' by Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman"
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2 images
Creator
Sarah Helen Whitman
Contributor
Thomas Ollive Mabbott
Format
Manuscript transcription
Description
Mabbott's manuscript transcription of Sarah Helen Whitman's 1848 valentine poem to Poe, which responds to his "The Raven." Mabbott adds this note in brackets at the end of the transcription: "Interesting from numerous Poe reminiscences, this poem seems worthy of preservation, and might well be reprinted."
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 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.