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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Letter to Mrs. (Eudocia Converse) Flynt, p. 1. Includes poem All the letters I could write.

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Credits: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Letter to Mrs. (Eudocia Converse) Flynt, p. 1. Includes poem All the letters I could write.. Library ID: YCAL MSS 200

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FP (1929), 80, from the fascicle (B). The note to Flynt was published in the Yale University Library Gazette, 6 (1931), 43. Poems (1955), 267-68 (A, B principal); CP (1960), 158 (B). Letters (1958), 414 (A). MB (1981), 410 (B), in facsimile. (J334). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F380A).
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F380A - All the letters I could write

All the letters I could
write,
Were not fair as this -
Syllables of Velvet -
Sentences of Plush -
Depths of Ruby, undrained -
Hid, Lip, for Thee,
Play it were a
Humming Bird
And sipped just
Me -

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First Line/Title: All the letters I could write
Date: 1862
Recipient: Eudocia Converse Flynt
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F380A
Textual Notes: Division
1 could |
6 Thee, ||
7 a |
8 just |
1 could] can
2 Were] Are
8 sipped just] just sipped

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Manuscript: Two fair copies, variant, about summer 1862. ed incorporated the poem into a note written about 20 July 1862 to Eudocia Converse Flynt, a cousin in Monson (y-brbl). Flynt, who had visited Amherst on 10 July for commencement, recorded in her diary that she received the note on 21 July. It was sent with a flower.
Recipient: Eudocia Converse Flynt
Textual Notes: Division
1 could |
6 Thee, ||
7 a |
8 just |
1 could] can
2 Were] Are
8 sipped just] just sipped
Publications: FP (1929), 80, from the fascicle (B). The note to Flynt was published in the Yale University Library Gazette, 6 (1931), 43. Poems (1955), 267-68 (A, B principal); CP (1960), 158 (B). Letters (1958), 414 (A). MB (1981), 410 (B), in facsimile. (J334)

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F380B - All the letters I can write

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998

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