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Amherst Manuscript # 121
Amherst - Amherst Manuscript # 121 - A word dropped careless on a page - asc:2642 - p. 1

Publication History
Letters (1894), 277, from the Norcross transcript ([B]); also LL (1924), 288; and Letters (1931), 252. Bingham, New England Quarterly, 20 (March 1947), 15, from the draft (A revised), with the alternative for line 4 adopted. Poems (1955), 878 (A revised principal, [B]); CP (1960), 553 (A revised). Letters (1958), 499 ([B]). (J1261). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1268A).
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Amherst Manuscript # 121
Franklin # 1268
Johnson Poems # 1261

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Box 2 Folder 43

Title

A word dropped careless on a page

Amherst Location

https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:2641

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asc:2642

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F1268A - A word dropped careless on a page

A Word dropped
careless on a Page
May stimulate an
Eye
When folded in
perpetual seam
The Wrinkled Author Maker
lie

Infection in the
sentence breeds
And we inhale
Despair
At distances of
Centuries
From the Malaria -

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First Line/Title: A word dropped careless on a page
Date: 1872
Edition: Franklin Variorum 1998
Number: F1268A
Textual Notes: 2 stimulate] consecrate
4 Maker] Author
Revision
6 And] canceled; may inserted after we
Division
1 dropped |
2 an |
3 in |
4 Maker |
5 the |

6 inhale |
7 of |
We may inhale Despair
Division
2 eye, no |
1 dropped] left

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Manuscript: Two (one in part, lost), variant, about 1872. The surviving holograph is a pencil draft on a fragment of stationery (a 121).
Notes: Two (one in part, lost), variant, about 1872. The surviving holograph is a pencil draft on a fragment of stationery (a121).
Textual Notes: 2 stimulate] consecrate
4 Maker] Author
Revision
6 And] canceled; may inserted after we
Division
1 dropped |
2 an |
3 in |
4 Maker |
5 the |

6 inhale |
7 of |
We may inhale Despair
Division
2 eye, no |
1 dropped] left
Publications: Letters (1894), 277, from the Norcross transcript ([B]); also LL (1924), 288; and Letters (1931), 252. Bingham, New England Quarterly, 20 (March 1947), 15, from the draft (A revised), with the alternative for line 4 adopted. Poems (1955), 878 (A revised principal, [B]); CP (1960), 553 (A revised). Letters (1958), 499 ([B]). (J1261)

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F1268B - A word left careless on a page

The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998

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