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Houghton Library - (109a) I got so I could hear his name, J293, Fr292

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XX, Fascicle 10. Includes 13 poems, written in ink, ca. 1861. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Houghton Library - (109a) I got so I could hear his name, J293, Fr292
Publication History
London Mercury, 19 (February 1929), 357; New York Herald Tribune Books (10 March 1929), 4, and FP (1929), 183-84, as six stanzas of 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, and 9 lines; in later collections, as six stanzas of 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, and 8 lines. The alternative for line 27 was adopted and that for line 23 appended as the poem's final two lines. Bingham, AB (1945), 388, lines 22-27, corrected, with the alternatives present and the final two lines rearranged. Poems (1955), 211-13; CP (1960), 136-37, with the alternatives adopted for lines 1 and 27. MB (1981), 231-32, in facsimile. (J293). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F292A).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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