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Edgar Allan Poe — “Secret Writing”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Secret Writing” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

Reprints:
  • "Cryptography" — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:332-346) (This is a reprint of the July 1841 article, collected for the first time.)
  • "Cryptography" — 1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9: Eureka and Miscellanies, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (9:260-278, and 9:316-317)
  • "Secret Writing" — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 14: Essays and Miscellanies, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell
    • "A Few Words on Secret Writing" (14:114-132)
    • "Secret Writing" (Addendum I) (14:133-137)
    • "Secret Writing" (Addendum II) (14:138-140)
    • "Secret Writing" (Addendum III) (14:140-149)
  • “A Few Words on Secret Writing” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews, ed. G. R. Thompson, New York: Library of America (pp. 1277-1291)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • "La cryptographie" — 1887 — Edgar Poë: Derniers Contes, Paris: Albert Savine  (French translation by Félix Rabbe)











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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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