Text: Robert A. Stewart (ed. J. A. Harrison), “Notes to The Journal of Julius Rodman,” The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Vol. IV: Tales - part 03 (1902), 4:277

[page 277, continued:]

The text follows Burton's.

This tale appeared anonymously in Burton's, but the internal evidence is fully sufficient to set at rest all question as to the authorship. [page 278:]

The piece is not found in the Griswold collection.

. ... . ... .

Apart from this, Poe in a remarkable letter to Burton, June 1, 1840 (Ingram, I. 175) acknowledges the authorship. To Mr. Ingram is due this interesting discovery. — ED.