Edgar Allan Poe — “To — [Elmira]”

Reading copy:

• “To — [Elmira]” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “To — —” — 1829, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “To — —” — 1829, text “A” — ATMP — (Mabbott text A)
• Text-03 — “To — —” — 1845, manuscript revisions in ATMP-EH in preparation for ROAP — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-04 — “To ——” — September 20, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text C)
• Text-05 — “To ——” — 1845 — RAOP — (Mabbott text D)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text) (For Griswold’s 1850 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)

Reprints:

• “To — —” — January 1846 — Knickerbocker (printed as part of a review of RAOP)
• “To ——” — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text-05  (Mabbott text E)
• “To ——” — January 5, 1858 — Richmond Enquirer (Richmond, VA), p. 4, col. 1 (This entry was provided by Ton Fafianie in an e-mail to the Poe Society of September 21, 2017)
• “To ——” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems  and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:84)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “To ——” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:133, and p. 230)
• “To ——” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:41, and 10:166)
• “To ——” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (p. 129, and p. 278)
• “To —” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (p. 51, and p. 195)
• “To —” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 42, and pp. 205-206)
• “To [Elmira]” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:132-133)
• “To —–” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (p. 56) (reprints Text-05)

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• “To — —” — Study Text (ATMP-EH)

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “A —” — 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.
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.