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Houghton Library - (30a) Whose are the little beds, I asked, J142, Fr85

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet VII, Fascicle 4. Includes 16 poems, written in ink, dated ca. 1859.
Houghton Library - (30a) Whose are the little beds, I asked, J142, Fr85
Publication History
St. Nicholas, 18 (June 1891), 616; Poems (1891), 122-23. Mabel Todd explained to T. W. Higginson that she had altered the text for St. Nicholas "in order to have the rhyme perfect, in a child's magazine"; their exchange, including lines 18-20 quoted from the manuscript, was printed in Bingham, AB (1945), 139. Poems (1955), 101-2; CP (1960), 66-67. MB (1981), 65-66, in facsimile. (J142). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F85A).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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