Work Metadata

Manuscript

Two (one in part), variant, about 1862. A few lines, addressed "Mr Bowles" and signed "Emily," were sent to Samuel Bowles (a 670) about early 1862.

Recipient

Samuel Bowles

Notes

Two (one in part), variant, about 1862. A few lines, addressed "Mr Bowles" and signed "Emily," were sent to Samuel Bowles (a670) about early 1862.

Textual Notes

Division
3 Everlasting |
4 Gentians - |
Division
11 the |
16 frill - ||
1 While Asters] The Aster
3 Their] Her
3 fashions] fashion

Publications

Letters (1894), 209, the lines to Bowles (A); also LL (1924), 236; and Letters (1931), 198. Poems (1896), 101, the fascicle copy (B), with stanza 1 omitted and alterations in stanzas 2 and 3 by Mabel Todd's father, Eben Jenks Loomis. FP (1929), 195-96, with the first stanza restored and Loomis's alterations undone, but with five stanzas of another poem appended; corrected in Bingham, AB (1945), 389n. Poems (1955), 264 (A) and 273-74 (B), as separate poems; also CP (1960), 157 (A) and 162-63 (B). MB (1981), 399-400 (B), in facsimile. (J331 and J342)