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"MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript, telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea.
The newspaper promised a $50 prize for the best tale and a $25 prize for the best poem submitted by October 1, 1833. About 100 entries were received but the judges chose Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" for its originality. In addition to the $50 prize, the story was published in the October 19 issue of the Visiter. [1]
Another copy of Tamerlane and Other Poems was published in a 1941 facsimile by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, [10] [27] who provided the introduction; his correction and additions to this are found in a subsequent publication. [28] A further copy was found in 1988 by a Massachusetts man rummaging around in a bin at an antiques barn in New Hampshire. [29]
P.J. Feret was the first to excavate the area student archaeologists were studying when they found ... Archaeologists digging through a French cliffside located a 200-year-old message in a bottle.
P.J Féret, who conducted a dig at France's Cité de Limes site in January 1825, wrote the message, archaeologists say.
Virginia Eliza Clemm was born in 1822 [1] and named after an older sister who had died at age two [2] only ten days earlier. [3] Her father William Clemm, Jr. was a hardware merchant in Baltimore. [4]
A bottle found by Suzanne Flament Smith in Florida (left); The letter from 1945 inside. Tropical Storm Debby continues toward the Northeast after it made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in ...
The bottle was retrieved on July 20 by Capt. Robert Oke on the revenue cutter Caledonia [50] off the coast of Newfoundland (46.36N, 55.30W). [51] In 1856, a bottle was found on the Hebrides coast, Scotland, containing a note stating a ship, believed to be the SS Pacific, had sunk after a collision with an iceberg. [52] [53]