Edgar Allan Poe — “To Frances”

Reading copy:

• “To Frances” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “To Mary” — 1835, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “To Mary” — July 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — (Mabbott text A)
• Text-03 — “To One Departed” — March 1842 — Graham's — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-04 — “To One Departed” — February 25 and March 4, 1843 — Saturday Museum — (Mabbott text C) (Poe sent two copies of this article to J. R. Lowell, one on October 19, 1843 and a second on May 28, 1844. In both cases, he appears to have done so for the purpose of providing Lowell with some biographical material to use for his article on Poe for Graham's Magazine. There is no indication that any of the poems in these copies had modifications made by Poe.)
  • Text-04a — “To One Departed” — February 25, 1843
  • Text-04b — “To One Departed” — March 4, 1843  (reprinted from February 25, 1843)
• Text-05 — “To F— [Frances]” — April 26, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text D)
• Text-06 — “To F——” — 1845 — RAOP — (Mabbott text E) (For Griswold's 1850 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)

Reprints:

• “To One Departed”   (March 5, 1842, reprinted from “B” — The New World, p. 2, col. 4, towards the bottom)
• “To F——” — March 18, 1846 — True American (Lexington, KY) (reprinted from RAOP)
• “To F——” — 1850 — WORKS — (Griswold reprints Text-06)  (Mabbott text F)
• “To One Departed” — June 1, 1850 — New York Organ  (with the byline of “BY THE LATE EDGAR A. POE”)
• “To One Departed” — June 11, 1850 — Penn-Yan Democrat (Penn-Yan, NY), vol. XXXIII, no. 17, whole no. 1681, p. 2, top of col. 3 (with the byline of “BY THE LATE EDGAR A. POE” and the typographical error of “Serenest sports [[skies]] continually ...”) (This entry was provided to the Poe Society by Ton Fafianie, in an e-mail dated October 3, 2018)
• “To F——” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol 3: Poems and Essays, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:35)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “To F——” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:78, and p. 189)
• “To F——” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:92, and 10:206-207)
• “To F——” — 1911 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Whitty, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (p. 34, and pp. 222-223)
• “To F——” — 1917 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Killis Campbell, Boston: Ginn and Company (pp. 79-80, and pp. 224-226)
• “To F——” — 1965 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Floyd Stovall, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia (p. 61, and pp. 243-244)
• “To F——” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:236-237)
• “To F——” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (p. 74) (reprints Text-06)

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “A F—” — 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.