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Houghton Library - (123a,b) The Love a Life can show Below, J673, Fr285; A first Mute Coming -, J702, Fr732

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XXII, Fascicle 35. Includes 25 poems, written in ink, dated ca. 1863.
Houghton Library - (123a,b) The Love a Life can show Below, J673, Fr285; A first Mute Coming -, J702, Fr732
Publication History
FP (1929), 147, from the fascicle (B), as two stanzas of 9 and 18 lines; in later collections, as three stanzas of 6, 6, and 4 lines. Poems (1955), 520-21 (A, B principal), with A as having been sent to Susan Dickinson; CP (1960), 334 (B). MB (1981), 859-60 (B), in facsimile. (J673). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F285B).
UP (1935), 139, with the last word of lines 5 and 7 as the first of lines 6 and 8 respectively. Poems (1955), 540-41; CP (1960), 346. MB (1981), 860, in facsimile. (J702). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F732A).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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