Disputed Poe attribution: letter to Charles Henry Marshall — 1848-05
Disputed attribution: inspect the locally preserved manuscript addressed to Charles Henry Marshall. Scholarly doubts and digitization limits are stated.
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About this source
Disputed attribution. The scholarly correspondence checklist records Thomas Ollive Mabbott’s doubts about this document’s validity. The Harry Ransom Center catalogues and digitizes the manuscript, but digitization does not resolve authorship. This record preserves the historical object for research and does not establish that Poe wrote it. Its date is the purported or assigned date, not independently authenticated. All 2 supplied repository images are preserved. The original supplied JPEG files and an exact-image PDF are local. Images retain handwriting, later annotations, folds, mounting and discoloration. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is claimed. This item is listed among general Poe research holdings, separately from the correspondence collection and its map.
Original publication
Disputed Poe attribution: letter to Charles Henry Marshall — 1848-05
Date
Purported 1848-05
Credits
Writer unidentified; attributed to Edgar Allan Poe (disputed). Source images: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
Where to find it
2 supplied images
Reference collection
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Collection reference
MS-03283; Box 2, Folder 13
Repository identity, supplied-image extent and public-domain designation checked. Scholarly authenticity doubts are unresolved and explicitly disclosed. Not included as verified Poe correspondence.
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Disputed attribution. The scholarly correspondence checklist records Thomas Ollive Mabbott’s doubts about this document’s validity. The Harry Ransom Center catalogues and digitizes the manuscript, but digitization does not resolve authorship. This record preserves the historical object for research and does not establish that Poe wrote it. Its date is the purported or assigned date, not independently authenticated. All 2 supplied repository images are preserved. The original supplied JPEG files and an exact-image PDF are local. Images retain handwriting, later annotations, folds, mounting and discoloration. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is claimed. This item is listed among general Poe research holdings, separately from the correspondence collection and its map.
Disputed attribution. The scholarly correspondence checklist records Thomas Ollive Mabbott’s doubts about this document’s validity. The Harry Ransom Center catalogues and digitizes the manuscript, but digitization does not resolve authorship. This record preserves the historical object for research and does not establish that Poe wrote it. Its date is the purported or assigned date, not independently authenticated. All 2 supplied repository images are preserved. The original supplied JPEG files and an exact-image PDF are local. Images retain handwriting, later annotations, folds, mounting and discoloration. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is claimed. This item is listed among general Poe research holdings, separately from the correspondence collection and its map.
Disputed attribution. The scholarly correspondence checklist records Thomas Ollive Mabbott’s doubts about this document’s validity. The Harry Ransom Center catalogues and digitizes the manuscript, but digitization does not resolve authorship. This record preserves the historical object for research and does not establish that Poe wrote it. Its date is the purported or assigned date, not independently authenticated. All 2 supplied repository images are preserved. The original supplied JPEG files and an exact-image PDF are local. Images retain handwriting, later annotations, folds, mounting and discoloration. No full transcription or handwriting OCR is claimed. This item is listed among general Poe research holdings, separately from the correspondence collection and its map.
“Disputed Poe attribution: letter to Charles Henry Marshall — 1848-05.” Purported 1848-05. Disputed Poe attribution: letter to Charles Henry Marshall — 1848-05. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-3cc28c0b3b7e4665ba8143bbde3c31d4. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-3cc28c0b3b7e4665ba8143bbde3c31d4. Accessed [date].
Catalogue citation: Manuscript attributed to Edgar Allan Poe (disputed), Letter to Charles H[enry] Marshall, 1848 May. Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, p15878coll102/60. Correspondence checklist RCL-710.
Harry Ransom Center repository rights statement: No Copyright — United States (NoC-US 1.0).
