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Houghton Library - p. 1 with two pictures pasted on page. J1514, Fr1453

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. She laid her docile crescent down [first line] A.MS.s.; [Amherst, 1875] 1s. (2p.) MS Am 1118.2 (35a). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Houghton Library - p. 1 with two pictures pasted on page. J1514, Fr1453
Publication History
Poems (1896), 157, as two quatrains, from the draft (A); in Poems (1930), 202, the text of line 2 became composite with the adoption of a variant ("confiding") from Higginson's copy (C). LH (1951), 105, from the Holland copy (B). Poems (1955), 965-66 (A unredacted, B summarized, C principal, D, [E] mentioned); CP (1960), 598 (C). (J1396). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1453B).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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