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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. The show is not the show, recto [mounted; verso not available]

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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. The show is not the show, recto [mounted; verso not available]. Library ID: Louise Chandler Moulton papers.

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Poems (1891), 40, from one of the complete copies (apparently B). Letters (1894), 317, in the letter to Higginson (C); also LL (1924), 277; and Letters (1931), 290. Poems (1955), 838-39 (B principal, C; without A); CP (1960), 532 (B). Letters (1958), 501 (C). Higgins, American Literature, 38 (March 1966), 5 (A), unredacted. (J1206). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1270A).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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Library ID: Louise Chandler Moulton papers.

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F1270A - The show is not the show

The Show is
not the Show
But they that
go -
Menagerie to me
My Neighbor be -
Fair Glee -
Both went to
see -

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First Line/Title: The show is not the show
Date: 1872
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F1270A
Textual Notes: 5 Glee -] Play -
Division
1 is |
2 that |
6 to |
Division
1 to |
2 Neighbor |

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Manuscript: Three (one in part), variant, about 1872. The earliest is a pencil draft on a fragment of stationery with a reading later abandoned. Mabel Todd gave this manuscript in 1892 to Louise Chandler Moulton, in whose papers it is located (Library of Congress).
Textual Notes: 5 Glee -] Play -
Division
1 is |
2 that |
6 to |
Division
1 to |
2 Neighbor |
Publications: Poems (1891), 40, from one of the complete copies (apparently B). Letters (1894), 317, in the letter to Higginson (C); also LL (1924), 277; and Letters (1931), 290. Poems (1955), 838-39 (B principal, C; without A); CP (1960), 532 (B). Letters (1958), 501 (C). Higgins, American Literature, 38 (March 1966), 5 (A), unredacted. (J1206)

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