Edgar Allan Poe — “For Annie”

Reading copy:

• “For Annie” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “For Annie” — March 23, 1849 — “Annie” manuscript — (Mabbott text A) (Manuscript currently in the Gimbel Collection, Philadelphia Free Public Library.) (Given by Poe to Annie Richmond in 1849; sold at auction by Libbie & Co. of Boston, February 3-5, 1892, item 1155 for $105 to William Nelson, of Patterson, NJ (presumably from Annie Richmond herself, and not from the collection of Rev. Thomas Raffles, as suggested by the title of the auction); sold by Stan V. Henkles Auctions (Philadelphia, PA) on May 7, 1903, item 958 to George H. Richmond (1849-1904), a bookdealer of New York, NY, for $425 from the collection of William Nelson (1847-1914); George H. Richmond, Sr died suddenly in 1904 in Short Hills, NJ, and the manuscript was presumably inherited by his son, George H. Richmond, Jr. (1874-1911), who died in March 1911 in New Jersey (it was listed for sale by G. H. Richmond in 1904 in a catalog of Autograph Letters, Broadsides, MSS., etc, item 224, for $750); purchased prior to 1959 by Col. Richard Gimbel; donated to the Philadelphia Free Public Library in 1974)
• Text-02 — “For Annie” — April 1, 1849 — “Chester” manuscript
• Text-03 — “For Annie” — April 28, 1849 — Flag of Our Union — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-04 — “For Annie” — April 20, 1849 — “Willis” manuscript — (Mabbott text C)
• Text-05 — “For Annie” — April 28, 1849 — Home Journal — (Mabbott text D)
• Text-06 — “For Annie” — May 16, 1849 — Oquawka Spectator — (Mabbott text E)
• Text-07 — “For Annie” — about late May, 1849 — manuscript or corrected copy sent to Griswold for PPA — (The original item, possibly a copy of the Home Journal, with a minor correction written on it, is now lost, put presumably recorded as Text-08)
• Text-08 — “For Annie” — Dec. 15, 1849 — Poets and Poetry of America (10th edition, dated 1850) — (Mabbott text F)
• Text-09 — “For Annie” — 1850 — WORKS — (Mabbott text G)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)
• Text-10 — “For Annie” — about September 1849 — Richmond Examiner proof sheets — (Mabbott text Z)
• Text-11 — “For Annie” — September 26, 1849, text “H” — “Talley” manuscript, lost and not recorded — (Mabbott text H)  (In her 1878 article “The Last Days of Edgar A. Poe,” p. 714, Mrs. Weiss writes: “On the way I was met by Miss Poe, who delivered a note left for me by her brother, containing a MS. copy of ‘Annie,’ — a poem then almost unknown, and which I had expressed a wish to see.”)

Reprints:

• “For Annie” — July 31, 1849 — Richmond Daily Republican (from the Home Journal) (see The Poe Log, p. 820-821)
• “For Annie” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:32-34)
• “For Annie” — May 1909 — Bibliophile (London, UK), (a facsimile of the full manuscript is given in an article by J. H. Ingram, pp. 134-135)
• “For Annie” — April 1959 — Col. Richard Gimbel, “Quoth the Raven: An Exhibition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe,” Yale University Library Gazette, vol. 33, no. 4 (facing p. 178) (prints a photographic facsimile of the first two-thirds of the manuscript)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “For Annie” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:90-93, and 10:195)
• “For Annie” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:111-114, and 10:216)
• “For Annie” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (pp. 74-77, and pp. 240-241)
• “For Annie” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 129-133, and pp. 287-291)
• “For Annie” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (pp. 118-122, and pp. 283-286)
• “For Annie” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:452-461)
• “For Annie” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (pp. 98-100) (reprints the text from Works, 1850)

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Pour Annie” — dated 2009, but available in late 2008 — Poèmes d‘Edgar Allan Poe, Paris: Publibook (translation by Jean Hautepierre)

• 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.
• Hogue, L. Lynn, “Eroticism in Poe’s ‘For Annie’,” Emerson Society Quarterly, Fall 1970, 60:85-87
• Ingrahm, John H., “Variations in Edgar Poe’s Poetry,” Bibliophile (London, UK), vol. III, May 1909, pp. 128-136.
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.
• Robbins, J. Albert, “A New Manuscript of Poe’s ‘For Annie’,” Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1986, 39:261-265