Edgar Allan Poe — “The Pay for American Authors”

Reading copy:

• “The Pay for American Authors” — reading copy

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.)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• None

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Pay of American Authors” — 2007 — Audio book (unabridged), read by Chris Aruffo (part of a 5-CD set)

• 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.