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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “The Pay for American Authors” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00) Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: Author's Pay in America  (These two articles are actually by N. P. Willis) "Author's Pay in America"  (N. P. Willis) (October 10, 1844, text "A" — Evening Mirror) "The Pay for Periodical Writing"  (N. P. Willis) (October 12, 1844, text "A" — Evening Mirror) Pay of American Authors (These four articles are by Poe) "Pay of American Authors" (Part I) (January 24, 1845 — Evening Mirror) "Pay of Authors in America" (Part II) (January 25, 1845, text "A" — Evening Mirror) "Pay of American Authors -- The Magazines" (Part III) (January 27, 1845, text "A" — Evening Mirror)  (This one item was not reprinted in the Weekly Mirror.) "Pay of American Authors -- Synopsis of the International Copy-Right Question" (Part IV) (January 31, 1845, text "A" — Evening Mirror) [Pay of American Authors] (Part IV) (February 8, 1845, text "C" — Godey's)  (The material is reused in an item of "Marginalia.") [Pay of American Authors] (Part IV) (1850, text "D" — Works)  (repeats the Godey's item of "Marginalia.") Reprints: Author's Pay in America  (These two articles are actually by N. P. Willis) "Author's Pay in America"  (N. P. Willis) (October 12, 1844 — Weekly Mirror) "The Pay for Periodical Writing"  (N. P. Willis) (October 19, 1844 — Weekly Mirror) Pay of American Authors (These four articles are by Poe) "Pay of American Authors" (Part I) (February 1, 1845 — Weekly Mirror) "Pay of American Authors" (Part II) (February 8, 1845, text "B" — Weekly Mirror) "Pay of American Authors [-- Synopsis of the International Copy-Right Question]" (Part IV) (February 8, 1845, text "B" — Weekly Mirror)  (Both parts II and IV are reprinted in the same issue.) Associated Material and Special versions: None

This series may be attributed to Poe with some confidence, with the exception of the first two installments (for which N. P. Willis is known to be the author). The four articles in the "Pay of Authors in America" series (January 24 - 31, 1845) are clearly related and presumably by the same hand. The final item is demonstrably Poe's by repetition of material in his "Marginalia."

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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