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Houghton Library - Spurn the temerity, J1432, Fr1485

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Credits: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Autograph manuscript letter (unsigned) to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson; no place, 1880]. 2s.(4p.) MS Lowell Autograph (93). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Houghton Library - Spurn the temerity, J1432, Fr1485
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Barney, Atlantic Monthly, 139 (June 1927), 801. Letters (1931), 318. Poems (1955), 992-93; CP (1960), 610. Letters (1958), 638. (J1432). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1485A).
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Order: 9
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Label: Spurn the temerity, J1432, Fr1485
Filename: ms_lowell_autograph_93_0009

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J1432 - Spurn the temerity --

Spurn the temerity --
Rashness of Calvary --
Gay were Gethsemane
Knew we of Thee --

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First Line/Title: Spurn the temerity --
Date: 1878
Recipient: Helen Hunt Jackson
Edition: Johnson Poems 1955
Number: J1432

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Year: 1878
Manuscript: Manuscript: Late 1878, in pencil. Early in November 1878 ED wrote T. W. Higginson saying: "I had a sweet Forenoon with Mrs Jackson recently, who brought her Husband to me for the first time. . ." (BPL Higg 98). This autograph came into the possession of Harvard College Library several years ago with other Higginson items. Beneath the poem, in the handwriting of Helen Hunt Jackson, is the note: Wonderful twelve words! -- H.J. Mrs. Jackson was in frequent communication with Higginson, and on one occasion sent him a letter written to her by ED (BPL Higg 112; see Letters, ed. 1931, 318 -- 319). One may conjecture that on her return to Colorado Springs after visiting Amherst in the autumn of 1878, she received a note from ED with these lines enclosed -- or that this was the note -- and that she forwarded the lines to Higginson, adding her notation.
Recipient: Helen Hunt Jackson
Publications: Publication: Atlantic Monthly, CXXXIX (June, 1927), 801; Letters (ed. 1931 only), 318.

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