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Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 767 - Emily Dickinson letter to [Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd?] - asc:8554 - p. 1

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Amherst Manuscript # 767
Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 767 - Emily Dickinson letter to [Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd?] - asc:8554 - p. 1

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SH (1914), 137, from Susan's transcript ([A]), the poem treated as having been sent to her. LH (1951), 172, in the letter to Holland (C). Bingham, AB (1945), 378, as two quatrains, from the letter to an unidentified recipient (D). Bingham, New England Quarterly, 20 (March 1947), 49, from the early draft (B), as two quatrains, with alternatives adopted for lines 3 ("embarrassment" and "dangerous") and 6 ("one's"). Bingham, New England Quarterly, 28 (September 1955), 308n, alternatives and revision from B. Poems (1955), 1080-81 ([A], B unredacted, C principal, D); CP (1960), 651 (C). Letters (1958), 761 (C) and 766 (D). (J1568). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1597D).
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