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Houghton Library - p. 1 J1391, Fr1425

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. They might not need me - yet they might . . . [first line] : A.MS.s. (Emily) poem; [Amherst, ca. 1877 May]. 1s. (2p.) MS Am 1118.1 (1). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Houghton Library - p. 1 J1391, Fr1425
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Howe, Book Buyer, n.s. 11 (October 1894), 425, as a quatrain, from the Jenkins copy (B). Youth's Companion, 71 (11 November 1897), 568, as two quatrains, presumably from the lost holograph ([C]); reprinted in Whicher, American Literature, 20 (January 1949), 437. Letters (1931), 308, as two couplets, in the letter to Mary Channing Higginson (A), said to be to her husband. Poems (1955), 958-59 (A principal, B summarized, [C] cited); CP (1960), 597 (A). Letters (1958), 580 (A, B). (J1391). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1425B).
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p. 1 J1391, Fr1425
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p. 1 J1391, Fr1425
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ms_am_1118_1_1_0001
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