While wading through the Beatles remastered CDs, I stumbled onto something quite entertaining for us nerdy types, on the world wide web.The University of Texas in Austin's Ransom Center has digitized its Edgar Allan Poe collection. Pictured at right is Poe's fair copy manuscript of the last stanza of his famous poem, "The Raven."
In addition to the manuscripts of “The Domain of Arnheim,” “The Spectacles,” and some of Poe’s most famous poems, the collection includes many letters written by and to Poe, and books belonging to Poe . One of my favorites is Poe's own copy of the book "The Raven and Other Poems [and] Tales," from 1845, with handwritten revisions and corrections by Poe, himself.
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