Edgar Allan Poe — “Desultory Notes on Cats”

Reading copy:

• “Desultory Notes on Cats” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Desultory Notes on Cats” — 1844, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “Desultory Notes on Cats” — July 19, 1844  — Philadelphia Public Ledger — (Mabbott text “A”)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)

Reprints:

• None

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Desultory Notes on Cats” — 1929 — Spannuth, Jacob E. and T. O. Mabbott, eds., Doings of Gotham, Pottsville, PA: Jacob E. Spannuth (pp. 86-91)
• “Desultory Notes on Cats” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1095-1098)

Instream Comparative 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.