Edgar Allan Poe — “The Colloquy of Monos and Una”

Reading copy:

• “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — about May 1841, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — August 1841 — Graham’s — (Mabbott text A)
• Text-03 — “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — 1842 — TGAPP (manuscript of title only) — (The tale is listed in Poe’s handwritten table of contents, but the text itself no longer survives. It was probably a modified version of the printed text from Graham’s Magazine, and is presumably recorded, with perhaps a few additional changes made in proof, in Text-04)
• Text-04 — “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — 1845 — TALES — (Mabbott text B)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)  (For Griswold’s 1850 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)

Reprints:

• “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text-04 (Mabbott text C)
• “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — 1874 — Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram, vol. 2, pp. 194-293 (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:215-227)
• “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales III, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (4:200-212, and 4:309)
• “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:607-620)
• “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 449-457

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None.

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None.

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Colloque entre Monos et Una” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
  • “Colloque de Monos et Una” — January 23, 1855 — Le Pays
  • “Colloque entre Monos et Una” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères

• 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.
• Jacobs, Robert D., Poe: Journalist and Critic, Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 1965, pp. 308-310 and 406-410.
• 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.
• Varner, Cornelia, “Notes on Poe’s Use of Contemporary Materials in Certain of His Stories,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology (1933), 32:77-80.
• Wyllie, John Cooke, “A List of the Texts of Poe’s Tales,” Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.