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Houghton Library - p. 4 J1421, Fr1411 blank

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Summer laid her simple hat [first line] A.MS.s.; [Amherst, 1875] 1s. (1p.) MS Am 1118.2 (35b). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Houghton Library - p. 4 J1421, Fr1411 blank
Publication History
Letters (1894), 323, the second stanza, in the letter to Higginson (E); also LL (1924), 302; and Letters (1931), 300. LH (1951), 105, the first stanza from the Holland copy (D). Bingham, New England Quarterly, 20 (March 1947), 17, both stanzas from the earliest draft (A), with alternatives adopted for lines 4 ("Fasten") and 8 ("An Affair of Awe"); in the same, p. 16, is the first stanza from draft C. Poems (1955), 941-43 (A unredacted, C unredacted, D and E composite and principal); CP (1960), 587-88 (D and E composite). Letters (1958), 566 (E). (J1363). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1411D).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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