Edgar Allan Poe — “Fifty Suggestions”

Reading copy:

• “Fifty Suggestions” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Fifty Suggestions” — 1849 (fragmentary manuscript material) (Mabbott/Pollin Text “A”)
• Text-02 — “Fifty Suggestions” — May and June 1849 Graham’s (Mabbott/Pollin Text “B”)
  • “Fifty Suggestions” - Part I  (May 1849)
  • “Fifty Suggestions - Part II   (June 1849)

Reprints:

• “Fifty Suggestions” — 1850 — WORKS (Mabbott/Pollin Text “C”)
• “Fifty Suggestions” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:480-492)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “[Fifty Suggestions]” — 1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 8: Literary Criticism, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (8:333-346, and 8:352)  (Woodberry and Stedman combine “A Chapter of Suggestions” and “Fifty Suggestions,” both under the title of “A Chapter of Suggestions”)
• “Fifty Suggestions” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (14:170-185) (Harrison misdates this item as 1845.)
• “Fifty Suggestions” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews, ed. G. R. Thompson, New York: Library of America (pp. 1297-1308)
• “Fifty Suggestions” — 1985 — The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe; Vol II- The Brevities, New York: Gordian Press, 1985  (2:475-507, and 1:xxvii-xxix)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Fifty Suggestions” — (a forgery by Joseph Cosey, now in the Gimble Collection, Philadelphia Free Public Library)  (This is a fragment of one page, bearing Poe’s name in a byline, and ending at “are dreamt of’ (oh, Andrew Jackson Davis!) in your philosophy [[. . .]]” In the upper right corner is the note “For G. R. G.—— for fills. December 1848.” The items are numbered 12, 14, 8, and 11.)

• Hatvary, George Egon, “The Whereabouts of Poe’s ‘Fifty Suggestions’,” Poe Studies, December 1971, 4:47-48
• 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.
• Pollin, Burton R., ed., The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe; Vol II- The Brevities (Including “Marginalia,” “Pinakidia,” “Fifty Suggestions,” and “A Chapter of Suggestions,” New York: Gordian Press, 1985)