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Notes:
Poe prepared this manuscript for publication in 1848, but abandoned
it, for reasons which are uncertain. It survives as a substantial
collection
of notes and fragments, with some material apparently clipped by R. W.
Griswold and given out as souvenirs to visitors and friends.
On the manuscript, Poe's name on the title page and the lines
beneath
it are given in a circular fashion, with the ends angled slightly
upwards.
On the internal title page, the words "LITERARY AMERICA" appear in the
middle of a full sheet. A photograph of the cover page was published by
Burton R. Pollin, "The Living Writers of America: A Manuscript
by
Edgar Allan Poe," Studies in the American Renaissance, 1991,
Charlottesville:
The University Press of Virginia, 1991, pp.151-211. No one can be
certain
of the size of the original manuscript. Some of the surviving sheets
bear
page numbers as high as 76.
The two notices of Poe by Cooke and Lowell were both eventually
published.
Cooke's notice was printed in the Southern Literary Messenger
for
January 1848, pp. 34-38. Poe requested Cooke to write it on April 16,
1846,
and Cooke replied on August 4, 1846, agreeing to the assignment "with
entire
pleasure." The notice by Lowell was apparently a minor revision
of
his article on Poe from Graham's Magazine for February 1845,
pp.
49-53. It may be essentially the same form as used by Griswold in 1850
for WORKS. A copy of the 1845 article, with two unspecified
changes
made by Lowell, is known but currently unlocated. It is signed on the
first page "J. R. Lowell" and dated "Elmwood 1847." These pages were
sold at the auctions of A. Edward Newton in 1941 and John F. Fleming in
1988. At
the Newton sale, it was misleading characterized as "proof sheets."
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[S:1 - Works, 1850]
- Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Editions - Literary
America (1848)
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