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Houghton Library - (206b) Remembrance has a Rear and Front. J1182, Fr1234

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Credits: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XXXVIII (mixed sets). Includes 11 poems, written in ink, with some pencil, ca. 1871-1872.
Houghton Library - (206b) Remembrance has a Rear and Front. J1182, Fr1234
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Poems (1896), 56, from the copy to Higginson (D). Poems (1955), 825 ([A] summarized, C, D principal; without [B]); CP (1960), 524-25 (D). MB (1981), 1323-24 (C), in facsimile. (J1182). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1234C).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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Imported: 2013-10-21 13:01:28 -0400
Order: 7
Order Label: (206b) Remembrance has a Rear and Front. J1182, Fr1234
Label: (206b) Remembrance has a Rear and Front. J1182, Fr1234
Filename: ms_am_1118_3_206_0003

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F1234C - Remembrance has a rear and front

Remembrance has a Rear and Front.
'Tis something like a House -
It has a Garret also
For Refuse and the Mouse -

Besides the deepest Cellar
That ever Mason laid -
Leave me not ever there alone
Oh thou Almighty God!

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First Line/Title: Remembrance has a rear and front
Date: 1871
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F1234C
Textual Notes: Emendation
2 'Tis] T'is
Emendation
7 it's] its
7-8]
Revision
7-8] canceled
alt 7-8 Contents] canceled
Revision
7-8] cancellation erased
alt 7-8 Contents] cancellation erased
Division
1 has |
2 something |
3 Garret |
4 and |
5 the |

6 Mason |
7 not |
8 Almighty |
alt 7-8 by |
alt 7-8 not |
Division
1 Remembrance |
1 Rear |
2 something |
3 a |

4 Refuse |
5 the |
6 ever |
6 laid - ||
7 to |
7 it's |
8 be |
Leave me not ever there alone
Oh thou Almighty God! The set also contains two versions of the alternative lines, which appear variantly in the other copies:

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Manuscript: Four (two lost), variant, about 1871. The text of a lost manuscript survives in Susan's transcript (h st9a).
Notes: A holograph copy with alternatives was recorded in Set 10 (h206). Susequently ed canceled the final two lines and one of the alternatives in pencil. They were restored by erasure.
Set: 10
Textual Notes: Emendation
2 'Tis] T'is
Emendation
7 it's] its
7-8]
Revision
7-8] canceled
alt 7-8 Contents] canceled
Revision
7-8] cancellation erased
alt 7-8 Contents] cancellation erased
Division
1 has |
2 something |
3 Garret |
4 and |
5 the |

6 Mason |
7 not |
8 Almighty |
alt 7-8 by |
alt 7-8 not |
Division
1 Remembrance |
1 Rear |
2 something |
3 a |

4 Refuse |
5 the |
6 ever |
6 laid - ||
7 to |
7 it's |
8 be |
Leave me not ever there alone
Oh thou Almighty God! The set also contains two versions of the alternative lines, which appear variantly in the other copies:
Publications: Poems (1896), 56, from the copy to Higginson (D). Poems (1955), 825 ([A] summarized, C, D principal; without [B]); CP (1960), 524-25 (D). MB (1981), 1323-24 (C), in facsimile. (J1182)

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