Edgar Allan Poe's Writings in the Saturday Museum

1843 - January ?, 1843 (vol I, no. ?) (no copies of this issue have been located)

• Misc. - “[[Notice of the Pioneer]]” (Although no copy of the Saturday Museum issue has been located, and the date is uncertain, the notice is reprinted on the inside back cover of the Pioneer for February 1843.)

1843 - February 25, 1843 (vol I, no. 12)

• “The Poets & Poetry of Philadelpha: Edgar Allan Poe” (This biographical article on Poe is unsigned and was attributed to Henry Beck Hirst by Poe, but Burton R. Pollin has disputed this attribution and claims that Poe himself is the author. There are clearly elements which must have derived from Poe, but probably at least nominally put together by Hirst from material provided by Poe. It may be best to consider it as a collaborative piece. In any case, the article is important for the original printing of one and reprints of sixteen of Poe's poems. The February printing omits one poem, “Song to the Newly-Wedded,” which was added to the March 4 printing, as noted below.)
  • Poem - “[Lines on Joe Locke]” (first printing)
  • Poem - “To Helen” (“Helen, thy beauty is to me ...”) (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “Spirit's Invocation” (excerpts of “Al Aaraaf”)  (reprint)
  • Poem - “Sonnet — To Science” (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “[Romance]” (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “To the River [—]” (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “The Conqueror Worm” (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “Lenore” (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “Sonnet — To Zante” (revsied reprint)
  • Poem - “The Sleeper” (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “To One in Paradise” (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “Sonnet — Silence” (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “Israfel” (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “To One Departed” (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “The Coliseum” (revised reprint)
  • Poem - “The Haunted Palace” (revsied reprint)

• Misc. - “Prospectus of the Stylus” (no copies of this printing of the prospectus are known, but it is presumably identical to the text printed as part of the March 4, 1843 issue, see below.)

1843 - March 1843 (Extra No. 1)

• Misc. - “Prospectus of the Stylus” (presumably identical to the text printed as part of the March 4, 1843 issue, see below.)

1843 - March 4, 1843 (vol I, no. 13)

• “The Poets & Poetry of Philadelpha: Edgar Allan Poe” (This article is essentially a reprint of the February 25, 1843 biographical sketch noted above. A comment in the Museum states that the reprint would be issued, and that it would include a number of corrections. It does differ somewhat from the earlier text, including one additonal poem and several new sentences about Poe's swimming feat. Poe sent a copy of this newspaper to James R. Lowell, on October 19, 1843, but there is no reason to presume that Poe had marked any further changes on this copy: “I send you the paper with my life and portrait. The former is true in general — the latter particularly false.”)
  • Poem - “[Lines on Joe Locke]” (reprint of first printing)
  • Poem - “To Helen” (“Helen, thy beauty is to me . . . “) (reprint)
  • Poem - “Spirit's Invocation” (excerpts of “Al Aaraaf”)  (reprint)
  • Poem - “Sonnet — To Science” (reprint)
  • Poem - “[Romance]” (reprint)
  • Poem - “To the River —” (reprint)
  • Poem - “The Conqueror Worm” (reprint)
  • Poem - “Lenore” (reprint)
  • Poem - “Sonnet — To Zante” (reprint)
  • Poem - “The Sleeper” (reprint)
  • Poem - “To One in Paradise” (reprint)
  • Poem - “Sonnet — Silence” (reprint)
  • Poem - “Israfel” (reprint)
  • Poem - “Song of the Newly-Wedded [Bridal Ballad]” (reprint, but this one poem was omitted from the February 25, 1843 printing)
  • Poem - “To One Departed” (reprint)
  • Poem - “The Coliseum” (reprint)
  • Poem - “The Haunted Palace” (reprint)

• Misc. - “Prospectus of the Stylus”  (p. 3, col. 7)

1843 - March 25, 1843 (vol I, no. 16) (no copies of this issue have been located)

• Misc. - “Original Conundrums” (part I)  (misc, first printing)
• Misc. - “[[comment the Pioneer, edited by J. R. Lowell and R. Carter]]” (In a letter of March 27, 1843 to J. R. Lowell, Poe states: “I have looked upon your Magazine, from its outset, as the best in America, and have lost no opportunity of expressing the opinion. Herewith I send a paper, ‘The Phil: Sat. Museum’, in which I have said a few words on the topic.”)

1843 - April 1, 1843 (vol I, no. 17)

• Tale - “The Destruction of the World”  (reprint, with a new title for “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion.”)
• Misc. - “Destruction of the World”  (short note about the story, the note itself being attributed to Poe by T. O. Mabbott)
• Misc. - “Original Conundrums”  (part II)  (first printing)

1843 - May 6, 1843 (vol I, no. 22)

• Tale - “The Business Man”  (revised reprint)

1843 - July 8, 1843 (vol I, no. 31)

• Tale - “The Gold Bug”  (heavily abridged version of the first installment of the tale)

1844 - August 31 (vol II, no. 40)

• Tale - “Mesmeric Revelation” (reprint)