The second draft of "The Bells," claimed as sent to Sartain's Union Magazine, was shorter than "The Raven," so upon Poe's evidence the longer draft was made in February, 1849, and it was his intention to send it to the American Whig Review. I think 'The Bells' will appear in The American Review." Poe in a letter to Annie, February 8, 1849, says, "The day before I wrote a poem considerably longer than 'The Raven.' I call it 'The Bells.' How I wish 'Annie' could see it.
Professor Woodberry's revised Life of Poe, page 295, volume ii, says, that according to Annie he finished "The Bells," presumably the second draft, February 6, 1849, and on page 388, that he visited Lowell the last week in May, and there wrote the last draft of "The Bells." Ingrain claims that it was the Summer of 1848 and not the Autumn that Poe wrote the first draft of "The Bells," at Mrs. In Gill's Life of Poe, page 205, it is stated that Poe composed and finished his greatest descriptive poem "The Bells" in the spring of 1849, a study of which he had previously made and sent to Sartain's Union Magazine. The second draft, much like the last, was sent to the same magazine in June, 1849, and the eighteen lines about December, 1848.
"About six months after this we received the poem enlarged and altered nearly to its present size and form and about three months since, the author sent another alteration and enlargement, in which condition the poem was left at the time of his death."Īccording to the above the last draft of "The Bells" was received by Sartain's Union Magazine, about September, 1849, at which period Poe was revising his writings at Richmond, Virginia.
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