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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “Instinct versus Reason — A Black Cat” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00) Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: "Instinct vs Reason — A Black Cat"  — 1840, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 "Instinct vs Reason — A Black Cat"  — January 29, 1840 — Alexander's Weekly Messenger — Text 02  (Mabbott's copy-text) Reprints: "Instinct vs Reason — A Black Cat"  — April 1942 — Clarence S. Brigham, "Edgar Allan Poe's Contributions to Alexander's Weekly Messenger," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society  (Brigham's full article was reprinted as a separate item in 1943, with this eassay appearing on pp. 29-32) "Instinct vs Reason — A Black Cat"  — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales and Sketches, 1831-1840, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press  (2:477-480) Associated Material and Special versions: None

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Bibliography: 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 (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.

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