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Texts and Variant Texts
Reading copy:
- “To F——s S. O——d” —
reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)
Manuscripts and
Authorized
Printings:
- "To Elizabeth"
— about 1833 —
manuscript — Text 01 (Mabbott text A) (This is Mabbott's
copytext for "To Elizabeth") (This version was
written in the album of Elizabeth Rebecca Herring, Poe's cousin)
- "[To E. W.]"
— about August 1835 —
manuscript — Text 02 (Mabbott seems to dismiss the idea that any
version was actually written down for Eliza White, commenting in his
notes that the tradition was apparently "based merely on the title of
the first printed version" (Poems, 1:233, n 2). This comment is
apparently itself based on the somewhat equivocal statement by Ingram
(1880, 1:130). Mrs. E. O. Smith, however, claimed to have actually seen
this
version
of the poem written "in the delicate chirography of Edgar Poe, with
date,
etc., in the hands of Lizzie White," with the title "To. E. W." Her
comment
is recorded in "Autobiographical Notes: Edgar Allan Poe," Beadle's
Monthly,
February 1867, p. 149. Although Mrs. Smith is not an entirely reliable
witness, her comments in this case seem detailed, specific and quite
plausible.)
- "To —" — August
1839
— Burton's — Text 04 (Mabbott text C)
- "To —" —
about 1841 — "Herring"
manuscript (copied and signed
by
Virginia
Poe) — Text 05 (Mabbott text D) (This version was written
in the album of Mary Estelle Herring, Elizabeth's younger half-sister)
- "To F—" — September
13, 1845 — Broadway
Journal (excerpt, lines 1-4 only) — Text 06 (Mabbott text E)
- "To F——s S. O——d"
— 1845
— RAOP — Text 07 (Mabbott text F) (This is
Mabbott's copytext for this early version)
- "To ——" — 1848 — The
Lover's
Gift, for 1849 — Text 08 (Mabbott text G)
- "To — —" — date
uncertain
— "Chapin"
manuscript — Text 10 (Mabbott text J) (This is Mabbott's
copytext for the final version)
Reprints:
- "To F——s S. O——d" — January 1846 — Knickerbocker
(printed
as part of a review of RAOP)
- “To F——s S. O——d” — 1875 — The Works of
Edgar
Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram,
Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black
(3:22)
- "Lines written in an Album" — 1880 — John H. Ingram, Edgar
Allan Poe: His Life, Letters and Opinions, London: John Hogg (1:130)
- “To F——s S. O——d” —
1894-1895
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E.
Woodberry and E. C. Stedman,
Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:81, and p. 192)
- “To F——s S. O——d” — 1902 — The Complete Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y.
Crowell (10:93, and 10:207-208)
- “To F——s S. O——d” —
1911
— The Complete
Poems of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (p.
33, and p. 222)
- “To Elizabeth” —
about May 1917
— The Complete
Poems of
Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co (p.
324) (This is the first time this early version was collected,
the manuscript having surfaced fairly recently. The manuscript is
currently unlocated, and thus Whitty's printing is an important
resource, although it contains one clear typographical error.)
- “To F——s S. O——d” —
1917
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell,
Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 80, and pp. 226-227)
- “To F——s S. O——d” —
1965
— The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall,
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 62, and pp.
244-245)
- “To Frances S. Osgood” —
1969 — The Collected Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
(1:233-236) (Mabbott gives three texts, one for "To Elizabeth,"
one for "To F——s. S. O——d," and one for the manuscript of "To — —")
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