"The Man that Was Used Up"
"Public Ledger and Daily Transcript | Philadelphia, Monday, June 3."
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"Public Ledger and Daily Transcript | Philadelphia, Monday, June 3."
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Format
Print from microfilm of newspaper
Description
Microfilm print of "Dr. Dyott's Case," Public Ledger and Daily Transcript (3 June 1839). In Note 16 of his version of "The Man that Was Used Up" Mabbott says: "Captain Daniel Mann was involved in the five-week trial of Dr. Thomas W. Dyott, who was convicted of fraud. See the Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 15 - June 3, 1839 passim; and Cornelia Varner, 'Notes on Poe’s Use of Contemporary Materials,' Journal of English and Germanic Philology, January 1933."
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 Man that was Used Up," in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. II: Tales and Sketches, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978), 376-392.