Rejected — “To Isaac Lea”

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text — “[To Isaac Lea]” — about May 27, 1829 — manuscript — (Mabbott text A) (the manuscript of the poem appears in a letter from Poe to Isaac Lea)

Reprints:

• “[To Isaac Lea]” — 1941 — A. H. Quinn, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (New York: Appleton) (pp. 138-143) (provides a transcript and a photographic facsimile of the original manuscript of the letter)
• “[To Isaac Lea]” — October 17-18, 1944 — Parke-Bernet sale catalog (Drexel Institute) (item 199) (provides a facsimile of the first page of the manuscript of Poe's letter)
• “[To Isaac Lea]” — 1948 — J. W. Ostrom, The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) (pp. 1:18) (provides the text in a transcript of Poe's letter)
• “[To Isaac Lea]” — December 7, 1954 — Sotheby’s (NY) sale catalog (Chrysler) (item 263) (provides a facsimile of the first page of the manuscript of Poe's letter)
• “[To Isaac Lea]” — May 1955 — House of El Dieff sale catalog (Jamacia, NY) (provides a transcription and facsimile of part of the manuscript of Poe's letter)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “To Isaac Lea” — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:147)
• “To Isaac Lea” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America) (p. 61) (reprints the text from Quinn, but using the title assigned by Mabbott, 1969)

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• None.

• Brandoli, Enrico, “ ‘To Isaac Lea’ Origin Solved,” E. A. Poe Review, Vol. 15, no. 2, Autumn 2014, p. 250.
• 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 (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.