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Houghton Library - (70d) My Reward for Being - was This, J343, Fr375

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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XIV, Mixed Fasciles. Includes 33 poems, written in ink, ca. 1860-1862. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Houghton Library - (70d) My Reward for Being - was This, J343, Fr375
Publication History
Both versions are presented in BM (1945), 308-9, among the poems incomplete or unfinished, from transcripts of A and B (a tr518 and 518a). The first is arranged as three quatrains; for the second, a footnote provided the text of the variant last stanza. Poems (1955), 274-75 (A principal, B); CP (1960), 163 (A). MB (1981), 400 (A) and 550 (B), in facsimile. (J343). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F375B).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

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