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with her publisher, Houghton Mifflin, is in the Houghton Library, as is the fascinating correspondence to do with the Library’s acquisition of the Dickinson Collection, a story in which the old tensions between adversarial camps continued to function.

The sources go beyond manuscripts and print, since the poet has an impact on music, dance and theatre, including theatre director Katie Mitchell’s innovative production of . . . some trace of her, a play inspired by The Idiot by Dostoyevsky and using poems by Dickinson in the National Theatre (Cottesloe), London (2008); Martha Graham’s choreography and performance of Letter to the World (1940, in the archives of the Martha Graham Center of Dance Records at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at the Lincoln Center, New York); John Adams’s eerie choral setting for ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ in Harmonium; and the rare transparency of Juliet Stevenson’s reading on stage at the British Library, recorded on a CD accompanying a selection of Dickinson’s poems in Josephine Hart’s Catching Life by the Throat (London: Virago, 2006; NY: Norton, 2007).

Songwriters are influenced by Dickinson. British star Pete Doherty picks up lines from ‘I took one Draught of Life—/ I’ll tell you what I paid—’ which he discusses in ‘Emily Dickinson? She’s hardcore’, an extraordinary interview in the Guardian (3 Oct 2006). Carla Bruni sings (in English) ‘I felt my life with both my hands / To see if it was there—’ in her album No Promises (2008). Californian M. Ward expresses an affinity for Dickinson’s combination of familiarity with the otherworldly. See interview in Relix music magazine (6 Jan 2009)

Abbot, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), Mother at Home: Principles of Maternal Duty (1833). Copies in Emily Dickinson Room, Houghton Library; in the Mudd Library, Yale: Lf30 833ab WB 7459; and in Library of Congress

Adams, Henry, druggist and apothecary, Amherst, record of prescriptions (1882-5). Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Bennett, the Revd John, Letters to a Young Lady (1789; repr. NY, 1824). Copy in Emily Dickinson Room, Houghton Library

Bianchi, Martha Gilbert Dickinson, Papers. Houghton: MS Am 1118.96

———, Papers, John Hay Library, Brown University

———, Scrapbook, with Susan Dickinson’s stories. John Hay Library, Brown University: St Armand Collection: 126. Available in Dickinson Electronic Archives (below)

———, 318 letters to Theodore Longfellow Frothingham. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.96

———, The Cossack Lover (NY: Duffield, 1911). Copy in Library of Congress. She also published Russian Lyrics and Cossack Songs

———, ‘Letters of Emily Dickinson’, Atlantic Monthly (Jan 1915). Copy in Jones Library

———, 258 letters to publisher, Houghton Mifflin (1924-42). Houghton: bMS Am 1925 (197)

———, Correspondence concerning publication of Emily Dickinson. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97-1118.98

———, Correspondence with William McCarthy (1930-43). Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97-1118.98 (123)

———, Correspondence with Amherst attorney Henry Field. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97-1118.98 (79)

———, Correspondence with Amy Angell Collier Montague (1900-43). Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library: Montague-Collier Family Papers

———, Correspondence with Ned Dickinson. Hay Library, Brown University

———(ed.), The Single Hound (1914; repr. London: Hesperus Press, 2005)

———, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924). Yale archives has Millicent Todd Bingham’s copy with marginalia: ‘Bosh!’ and ‘ugh’ and ‘oh, yeah?’

———, Emily Dickinson: Face to Face: Unpublished Letters with Notes and Reminiscence, with Foreword by Alfred Leete Hampson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932)

Bingham, Millicent Todd, Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

———, Ancestors’ Brocades: The