1835-03

Berenice - Southern Literary Messenger, March 1835

First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's tale 'Berenice,' in its original uncut 1835 text.

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The tale's first appearance in print, in the March 1835 Southern Literary Messenger (issue pp. 333-336). This first printing contains a graphic bed-chamber passage (the narrator's visit to the coffin) that Poe deleted when he revised the tale in 1845 after reader complaints about its gruesomeness.

Date: 1835-03
Credits: Edgar Allan Poe (author)
Publisher: Thomas W. White — Southern Literary Messenger
Where to find it: 4 tale pages (issue pp. 333-336); complete issue is 64 scanned pages
Reference collection: Internet Archive

AI-assisted transcription produced by Claude and visually checked against this Internet Archive scan; no independent human proofread. Running heads, page numbers and two-column breaks removed for reading; the original 1835 text is retained, including the graphic bed-chamber passage Poe deleted in 1845, the embedded Latin (Tertullian; Ebn Zaiat) and French quotations, and the Halcyon and Ebn Zaiat footnotes (here folded into the citation note). The scan remains authoritative for exact typography.

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Pages 9-12 of the received PDF.

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Original scan - complete issue (March 1835)

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Poe, Edgar Allan. 'Berenice.' Southern Literary Messenger, vol. 1, no. 7 (March 1835): 333-336.

Public domain. First published in the United States in March 1835; copyright long expired. Internet Archive scan of a public-domain serial.

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