Edgar Allan Poe — “Beloved Physician”

Reading copy:

• “Beloved Physician” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Beloved Physician” — April 1847, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but the only excerpts of this version that are likely to have survived are presumably recorded in Text-02 and Text-03) — (Mabbott text A) (The title is based on Poe’s letter of June 1848.)
• Text-02 — “Beloved Physician” — January 23, 1875 — recollection of fragments by Mrs. Shew, sent to J. H. Ingram. — (Mabbott text B) (By 1875, Mrs. Shew was Mrs. Houghton, and her letter to Ingram is the basis for his article, from which Text-03 is taken. Because Ingram includes all of the relevant material from her letter, and there is no other source for the poem, Text-03 is allowed to stand as representative.)
• Text-03 — “Beloved Physician” — January 1909 — Bookman (NY) — fragments only, published by J. H. Ingram — (Mabbott text C)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)

Reprints:

• None.

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “The Beloved Physician” — 1928 — Selected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, New York: Macmillian
• “The Beloved Physician” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:401-404)

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.
• Ingram, John Henry, “Edgar Allan Poe’s Lost Poem ‘The Beautiful Physician’,” Bookman (New York, NY), vol. XXVIII, no. 5, January 1909, pp. 452-454.
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.