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Edgar Allan Poe — “MS. Found in a Bottle”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “MS. Found in a Bottle” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • "MS. Found in a Bottle" — 1833, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "MS. Found in a Bottle" — October 19, 1833 — Baltimore Saturday Visiter — Text 02 (Mabbott text A)
  • "Manuscript Found in a Bottle" — 1835 — The Gift for 1836 — Text 03 (Mabbott text B)
  • "MS. Found in a Bottle" — December 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 04 (Mabbott text C)
  • "Manuscript Found in a Bottle" — 1842 — TGAPP — Text 06 (Mabbott text E)

Reprints:
  • "MS. Found in a Bottle" — October 26, 1833 — The People's Advocate (Newburyport, MA)
  • "MS. Found in a Bottle" — October 19, 1849 — Richmond Semi-Weekly Examiner  (H&C lists October 10, 1849 and October 19, 1849, with the earlier date apparently an error.)
  • "MS. Found in a Bottle" — August 1855, The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, UK, vol. III, pp. 193-198, reprinted from "A". The introductory note reads: "[This story (which here appears for the first time in England) is remarkable as being that which first brought the author, then in the very uttermost depths of poverty, into public notice. The proprietors of a Baltimore magazine offered a prize for the best story.  Poe's beautiful caligraphy [sic] attracted attention; his story (the 'MS' Found in a Bottle') was perused, and it was decided to give the prize to the 'first of geniuses who had written legibly.']")
  • “MS. Found in a Bottle” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (2:222-236)
  • "MS. Found in a Bottle" — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:1-15, and 2:307-313)
  • "MS. Found in a Bottle" — March 1934 — Amazing Stories, vol. 8, no. 11
  • “MS. Found in a Bottle” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:130-148)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • "Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille" — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
    • "Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille" — January 21-22, 1855 — Le Pays
      • "Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille" — Part I  (January 21, 1855)
      • "Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille" — Part II  (January 22, 1855)
    • "Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille" — 1856 — Histoires extraordinaires, Paris: Michel Lévy frères
  • “Trovato in una Bottiglia" — 1876 — Racconti Incredibili, Milano, Italy: Tipografia Editrice Lombarda  (Italian translation, with several illustrations)











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Bibliography:
  • Guilds, John C., Jr., "Poe's 'Manuscript Found in a Bottle': A Possible Source," Notes & Queries, October 1956, 201:452
  • 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.
  • Pollin, Burton R., "Poe's Use of Material from Barnardin de Saint-Pierre's Etudes," Romance Notes, 1971, 12:1-8
  • Richard, Claude, " 'Manuscript Found in a Bottle' and the Folio Club," Poe Newsletter, January 1969, 2:17
  • Scherting, Jack, "The Bottle and the Coffin: Further Speculations on Poe and Moby-Dick," Poe Newsletter, October 1968, 1:22
  • Stauffer, Donald Barlow, "The Two Styles of Poe's 'Manuscript Found in a Bottle'," Style, Spring 1967, 1:107-120
  • Thomas, J. D., "Composition of Wilde's The Harlot House," Modern Language Notes, November 1950, 65:485-488
  • Weber, Jean-Paul, "Edgar Poe on the Theme of the Clock," La Nouvelle Revue Francais (August-September 1958), 68:301-311 and 69:498-508.
  • Wyllie, John Cooke, "A List of the Texts of Poe's Tales," Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.



 
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