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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “Letter to B——” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00) Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: "Letter To Mr. — ——" — 1831, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 "Letter To Mr. — ——"  — 1831 — POEMS — Text 02 "Letter to B——"  — July 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 03 Reprints: "Letter to B——"  — 1856 — Works — Griswold merely reprints Text 03 “Letter to B——” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:312-318) “Letter to B——” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 10: Poems, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (10:144-153) “Letter to B——” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:xxxv-xliii) “Letter to B——” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews, ed. G. R. Thompson, New York: Library of America (pp. 5-12) Associated Material and Special versions: “Lettre à B——” — June 15, 1897 — La Revue Blanche (Paris) (French translation by Philippe E. Dally, from the Ingram reprint)

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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. O'Neill, James, "A Closer Source for the Goths in Poe's 'Letter to B——'," Poe Studies, 1979, 12:19-20

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