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In preparing this note I have consulted especially the documents given by Mrs. Stanard in Edgar Allan Poe Letters ...in the Valentine Museum, the discussions in the lives of Woodberry and Allen, in Killis Campbell's and J. H. Whitty's editions of the poems, and in Hewitt's Shadows on the Wall. At one time or another I have personally examined all the periodicals and most of the MSS. mentioned. Other sources are specially named.
The facsimile is made from the copy in the Aldis Collection, through the courtesy of the Yale University Library authorities and Professor Stanley T. Williams.
T.O.M.
HUNTER COLLEGE
November, 1932
