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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — reading copy — based on Text 00 Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: "The Colloquy of Monos and Una" — about May 1841, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 "The Colloquy of Monos and Una" — August 1841 — Graham's — Text 02  (Mabbott text A) "The Colloquy of Monos and Una" — 1842 — TGAPP (manuscript of title only) — Text 03  (The tale is listed in Poe's handwritten table of contents, but the text itself no longer survives. It was probably a modified version of the printed text from Graham's Magazine, and is presumably recorded, with perhaps a few additional changes made in proof, in Text 04) "The Colloquy of Monos and Una" — 1845 — TALES — Text 04  (Mabbott text B)  (This is Mabbott's copytext) Reprints: “"The Colloquy of Monos and Una" — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 04 (Mabbott text "C") “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:215-227) “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales III, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (4:200-212, and 4:309) “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:607-620) Associated Material and Special versions: “Colloque entre Monos et Una” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire) “Colloque de Monos et Una” — January 23, 1855 — Le Pays “Colloque entre Monos et Una” — 1857 — Nouvelles histoires par Edgar Poe, Paris: Michel Lévy frères

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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. Jacobs, Robert D., Poe: Journalist and Critic, Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 1965, pp. 308-310 and 406-410. 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. Varner, Cornelia, "Notes on Poe's Use of Contemporary Materials in Certain of His Stories," Journal of English and Germanic Philology (1933), 32:77-80. 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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