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Houghton Library - (155a) It sifts from Leaden Sieves -, J311, Fr291

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XXIX, Fascicle 24 (part). Includes 8 complete poems with a portion of another, written in ink, dated ca. 1862.
Houghton Library - (155a) It sifts from Leaden Sieves -, J311, Fr291
Publication History
Poems (1891), 174-75, from the fascicle copy (B), with the alternatives for lines 15 and 19 ("Ghosts") adopted and with "Wood" (line 2) incorporated from the retained copy (C). The later version is in BM (1945), 41, from either C or E made composite with a reading from the other. Poems (1955), 231-34 (A principal, B, C, E; without D); CP (1960), 146 (A). MB (1981), 535-36 (B), in facsimile. (J311). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F291B).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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