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———, Letters to T. W. Higginson and to E. D. Hardy of Roberts Brothers. Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives

———, Letter to J. Clark (8 Aug 1893) about settling in Omaha. Yale: Todd Papers, 496C, box 97, folder 157

———, letters to David Todd. Yale: Mabel Loomis Todd Papers, box 97, f.161-5

Dickinson Family, Papers, library and furniture from Emily Dickinson’s room. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95. The need for preservation means that scholars can no longer examine the actual books, but in 1990, before the embargo, I did see a number of these, including the Dickinsons’ Brontë collection and Emily Dickinson’s geology textbook (see Hitchcock, below) with its diagrams of volcanoes

———, Dickinson Family contracts and correspondence between the Dickinson family and Roberts Brothers, Little, Brown and Company, and Houghton Mifflin and Company, concerning publication of the poet (1890s-1960s). Houghton: bMS Am 1118.18

———, Pre-1915 floor plans of the Homestead. Amherst College Archives Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (trans. David McDuff), The Idiot (1868; London: Penguin Classics, 2004)

Field, Henry (attorney), Letters to MDB. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97-1118.98 (79)

Hampson, Alfred Leete and Mary Landis Hampson, Correspondence, mostly with William McCarthy, to do with The Evergreens and the Dickinson Papers (1940s-1980s). Houghton: bMS Am 1923 (Some of McCarthy’s side to the correspondence is in Hay Library, Brown University: Evergreens Collection, box 4)

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Letters to Lavinia Dickinson, Thomas Niles and Mabel Loomis Todd. Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives

———, ‘Emily Dickinson’s Letters’, Atlantic Monthly (Oct 1891)

Hill, Alice (‘Alix’) Barton (later Harris), Letter to Frothingham (1898). Houghton: MS Am 1996

Hitchcock, Edward, Elementary Geology (1840, repr. 1842). Emily Dickinson Room, Houghton

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, ‘James Jackson: A Biographical Sketch’ (1876). Countway Library of the History of Medicine, Harvard: B MS b6.1

Houghton Library. Search the Online Archival Search Information System (OASIS) for online Dickinson material and family photographs at

Houghton Mifflin (publishers), Correspondence with Martha Dickinson Bianchi, 1923-43. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97-1118.98 (11)

Howe, Julia Ward, Passion Flowers (first collection of poems in 1854, discussed by Elaine Showalter, A Jury of Her Peers, below)

Jackson, Helen Hunt, née Fiske, Mercy Philbrick’s Choice (Boston: Roberts, 1876)

———, Ramona (1884; repr. NY: Signet Classics, 2002)

———, A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government’s Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (Harper, 1881; repr. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995)

———, Report on the Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians of Southern California (1883)

Jackson, James (Dickinson’s Boston physician), Letters to a Young Physician (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1855)

———, Another Letter to a Young Physician (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861)

———, Papers. ‘Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine’: MS notes on Jackson’s lectures, copied by Oliver Wendell Holmes as a medical student in 1831-3. Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard

———, Papers. ‘Memoria Medica’ (MS casebook). Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: f1.K.54

———, Papers. ‘Notes on Medicine’ MS. Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: f1.K.53

———, Papers. ‘Notes on Clinical Medicine’ MS. Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: f1.K.156

———, Prescription for Emily Dickinson. Attached to letter she sent to her brother asking for twice the amount. Photostat at Houghton: bMS Am 1118.99c (27 Dec 1853). MS in Special Collections, Amherst College Library

Jackson, William A. (Librarian