"The Raven"
Note on photocopy: "Fragment written as an autograph--now in Koester coll. | K"
Details
Title
Note on photocopy: "Fragment written as an autograph--now in Koester coll. | K"
Creator
Edgar Allan Poe
Contributor
Unknown
Format
Photocopy of periodical
Description
Photocopy of a two-page spread from an auction catalogue, announcing the sale of a copy of The Raven and Other Poems (1845) featuring a fragment of the title poem in the author's hand as an autograph. The "K" in the handwritten note refers to Mabbott's letter-based system for chronologically ordering printings of the poem. The manuscript fragment is Mabbott's text "K."
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.