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Houghton Library - (104b,c) "Why do I love" You, Sir?, J480, Fr459; The Himmaleh was known to stoop, J481, Fr460

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XIX, Fascicle 22. Includes 23 poems, written in ink, dated ca. 1862.
Houghton Library - (104b,c) "Why do I love" You, Sir?, J480, Fr459; The Himmaleh was known to stoop, J481, Fr460
Publication History
London Mercury, 19 (February 1929), 355-56, and FP (1929), 153, with stanzas 2 and 4 omitted, and the remaining two arranged in seven and nine lines; in later collections, with further rearrangement of lines. Bingham, New England Quarterly, 20 (March 1947), 34, entire. Poems (1955), 368-69, with line 14, which crosses a page break, as two lines; also CP (1960), 231-32. MB (1981), 488-89, in facsimile. (J480). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F459A).
UP (1935), 66. Poems (1955), 369; CP (1960), 232. MB (1981), 489, in facsimile. (J481). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F460A).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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