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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq” — reading copy — based on Text 00 Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq" — 1844, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01 "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq" — December 1844 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 02 (Mabbott text A) "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq" — July 26, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 03 (Mabbott text B) "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq"  — 1856 — WORKS — Text 04 (Mabbott text C)  (This is Mabbott's copytext) Reprints: “The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:171-197) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms) “The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 6: Tales V, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (6:1-27, and 6:275-277) “The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1126-1149) Associated Material and Special versions: “Les débuts littéraires de Thingum Bob” — 1862 — Contes inedts d'Edgar Poe, Paris: J. Hetzel  (French translation by William L. Hughes)

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