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Houghton Library - J1387, Fr1395

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. The Butterfly's Numidian gown - [first line] : A.MS. (unsigned) poem; [n.p., ca. 1876]. MS Am 1118.7 (*55M-289). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Houghton Library - J1387, Fr1395
Publication History
BM (1945), 72, from the earlier draft (A), with alternatives for line 4 ("yet" and selectively "dappled") and 5 ("languid"). Poems (1955), 956 (A only); CP (1960), 595-96 (A), with an alternative for line 4 ("yet") adopted. (J1387). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1395B).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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