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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.
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.
The Baltimore Saturday Visiter awarded him a prize in October 1833 for his often overlooked short story "MS. Found in a Bottle". [46] The tale brought him to the attention of John P. Kennedy , a Baltimorean of considerable means who helped Poe place some of his other stories and introduced him to Thomas W. White, editor of the Southern Literary ...
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]
Inside the bottle, Flament-Smith found all sorts of contents: a few shells, a bullet casing, a "mini cannonball," and sand; but, the biggest surprise was the note inside, she told WTSP.
P.J Féret, who conducted a dig at France's Cité de Limes site in January 1825, wrote the message, archaeologists say.
Such messages have been romanticized in literature, from Edgar Allan Poe's 1833 story "MS. Found in a Bottle" through Nicholas Sparks' 1998 Message in a Bottle. [151] Clint Buffington, subject of the 2019 documentary short film The Tides That Bind / A Message in a Bottle Story, [ 152 ] surmised in an interview with The Guardian that sending a ...
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 ...