Edgar Allan Poe — “Doings of Gotham”

Reading copy:

• “Doings of Gotham” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — Doings of Gotham   (manuscript material)
  • Letter I — about May 10, 1844 — (a manuscript must have existed, but other than the original printing, there is no mention or trace of it, and it is now presumably lost.)
  • Letter II — about May 17, 1844 — (a manuscript must have existed, but other than the original printing, there is no mention or trace of it, and it is now presumably lost.)
  • Letter III — about May 23, 1844 — (a manuscript must have existed, but other than the original printing, there is no mention or trace of it, and it is now presumably lost.)
  • Letter IV — June 4, 1844 — “Bowen” manuscript (noted in the New York Times, January 14, 1912, but now presumably lost.)
  • Letter V — June 12, 1844 — “Rosenbach” manuscript
  • Letter VI — June 18, 1844 — “Bowen” manuscript
  • Letter VII — about June 21, 1844 — (a manuscript must have existed, but other than the original printing, there is no mention or trace of it, and it is now presumably lost.)
• Text-02 — Doings of Gotham
  • “Letter I  — May 18, 1844 — Columbia Spy  (letter dated May 14, 1844)
  • “Letter II  — May 25, 1844 — Columbia Spy  (letter dated May 21, 1844)
  • “Letter III  — June 1, 1844 — Columbia Spy  (letter dated May 27, 1844)
  • “Letter IV  — June 8, 1844 — Columbia Spy  (letter dated June 4, 1844)
  • “Letter V  — June 15, 1844 — Columbia Spy  (letter dated June 12, 1844)
  • “Letter VI  — June 29, 1844 — Columbia Spy  (letter dated June 18, 1844)
  • “Letter VII  — July 6, 1844 — Columbia Spy  (letter dated June 25, 1844)

Reprints:

• Letter IV — January 14, 1912 — the New York Times (printed from the Columbia Spy)
• Letter VI — 1909 — The Life and Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, by George E. Woodberry (2:81-87) (printed from the manuscript, in the Ridgeway Library in Philadelphia, PA)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• Doings of Gotham — 1929 — Spannuth, Jacob E. and T. O. Mabbott, eds., Pottsville, PA: Jacob E. Spannuth (Collects Poe’s contributions to the Columbia Spy. The editors make some small changes and errors in reproducing Poe’s texts.)
  

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• None

• Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
• Spannuth, Jacob E. and T. O. Mabbott, Doings of Gotham, Pottsville, PA: Jacob E. Spannuth, 1929. (Collects Poe’s contributions to the Columbia Spy.)