Lives Like Loaded Guns_ Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds - Lyndall Gordon [215]
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NOTES
The notes below include all three major publications of Emily Dickinson’s manuscripts, since all are in use: the first complete scholarly edition, which Johnson brought out in 1955; the variorum edition by Franklin in 1998, which re-dated some poems, added poems from the letters and altered Johnson’s chronological numbering; and the digital and selective presentation of EDC (Emily Dickinson Correspondences) that eliminate editorial interventions between Dickinson manuscripts and the reader. The approximate dates below, from Franklin’s edition, may be too minutely identified not to remain questionable in some cases.
ABBREVIATIONS
I: A POET NEXT DOOR
3 four thousand: Franklin, The Editing of ED, 4-5.
3 wallpaper incident: Edward (Ned) Dickinson to ‘Mopsy’, his sister Martha Dickinson, who was at Miss Porter’s school in Farmington, Connecticut (26 Jan [1885]), marked ‘am’). Brown: St Armand Collection: 33.
4 ‘the paternal mansion’: SB to WAD, enquiring after ED. Houghton.
4 brown brick: TWH to his wife (1870), L342a.
4 ‘Exterior’: ‘This was a Poet—’ (c. late 1862), J448/Fr446.
4 ‘The Soul selects her own Society’: (c. 1862), J303/Fr409/EDC.
5 ‘The Soul that hath a Guest’: (c. 1863). J674/Fr592.
5 ‘Fortune’: ‘This was a Poet—’ (c. late 1862). J448/Fr446.
5 ‘Names of Sicknesses’: To Mrs Holland, L873. At this time, late 1883, the doctor called her sickness ‘nervous prostration’. It was soon after Gib’s death, but ED refers to ‘The Crisis of the sorrow of so many years’.
5 said to be different: ‘Since Gib’s death Emily was differently ill & alarmingly so’. LD to Clara Newman Turner and Anna Newman (23 Jan 1885). Houghton: bMS Am 1118.7.
6 ‘My Life had stood . . .’: (c. late 1863), J754/Fr764.
7 ‘Existence’: (c. spring 1863). J443 has the correct capital E (transcribed in the lower case in Fr522).
7 hints and guesses: T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets. He refers to what ED called the ‘Flash’.
7 ‘Bomb’; ‘Hold’; ‘calm’: ‘I tie my Hat’ (c. spring 1863). J443. MB, 555. Fr522 omits the penultimate stanza since in the booklet (number 24) there is a line under it, customarily used to indicate the end of a poem, but ED copied this stanza within the text of ‘I tie my Hat’ and it’s