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190 ‘I thank God . . .’; ‘Yes, darling’; ‘before the veil . . .’; ‘white heat . . .’: A&M, 171-3.

191 WAD’s letters to David Todd: Yale: 496C, series VII, box 97.

191 ‘than all the Trustees . . .’: Interviewed by MTB. Yale. Cited by Sewall, i, appendix II, 294.

192 ‘sweetly unmoral’: Journals (1911). MLT acknowledged her disappointment in the marriage only decades later, as something she was too proud to discuss even in her journal where her usual mode was ‘blue sky’.

192 ‘Black Moghul’: A&M.

192 ‘Perhaps the dear, grieved Heart . . .’: L869.

192 ‘has not leave to last’; boats: L871.

193 ‘My life as a sort of consecration . . .’: Quoted in A&M, 173.

III: MABEL’S REIGN

9: EMILY’S STAND

197 ‘Never eaqualled’: WAD’s diary (17 Nov 1884). Yale: box 101, f.245.

197 ‘most perfect . . .’: WAD’s diary (Sun, 14 Oct 1888). Yale: box 102, f.251.

197 records of lovemaking: Diaries at Yale. Discussed in A&M, 180, and Peter Gay, Education of the Senses, 461-2, where Gay finds that MLT used ‘o’ for orgasm after a progressive number during the year, e.g. on 28 Apr 1881 she notes: ‘Happiest of nights with David - my own. 15 (o)’. On 22 Sept 1882, soon after the Rubicon moment with WAD, she was in Washington with DPT and notes numbers 40 and 41.

197 ‘at the other house . . .’: WAD’s diary (1886), Yale: box 102, f.247.

197 ‘A most . . . two hours’: MLT’s diary (1886). Yale: microfilm, reel 1.

198 ‘we met . . .’: Letter (6 Aug 1885). A&M, 235-6. WAD’s diary for Thursday 7 August 1884 corroborates this: ‘at the other house pm till 4 _ ==== and then at office’. An uninterpretable M-like mark above the parallel lines.

199 ‘all will be well’: (29 Dec 1883). A&M, 178.

199 ‘Conventionalism . . .’: (early 1884). A&M, 186.

199 ‘dream . . .’: a poem entitled ‘P.S. First’ (c. 1883).

200 Maggie’s witness: Deposition before a trial of 1898. See below, ch. 12.

200 ‘Such superhuman . . .’: Letter to his sister at school (Mar 1885). A&M, 202.

200 ‘talk you over . . .’: (12 July 1885). Yale.

201 second writing table: Longsworth, The World of ED, 84.

202 door closed: Maher’s deposition before the 1898 trial.

203 ‘snare . . .’: L736.

203 pressed: Herbarium, 32.

204 ‘Trophy is a snare’: (late Sept 1882, the same month as MLT’s singing). L769.

204 ‘entangled Antony’: (21 Mar 1885). L978.

205 ‘Will Brother and Sister’s dear friend . . .’: (c. 1883). L831.

205 ‘America’: (summer 1885). L1004.

206 ‘adder’s tongue . . .’: MLT’s diary (8 May 1885). Yale: microfilm.

206 ‘Their dappled importunity’: (c. 1885). Fr1677. Franklin’s note about the MS links it with the diary entry above.

207 ‘You are a great poet’: L444a.

207 ‘like a great ox . . .’: L476c.

207 ‘You say . . .’: L476c.

207 A Masque of Poets: Copy in PML: 42123, location: E-387E.

207 ‘I will copy . . .’: (29 Apr 1878, from her home in Colorado Springs). L573a.

207 ‘Success is counted sweetest’: (c. 1859). J67/Fr112/EDC.

207 ‘Now . . .’: (25 Oct 1878). L573b.

208 ‘she wished . . .’: L749b.

209 ‘efface’: L814.

209 ‘I thank you . . .’: L813b.

209 sample poems: Including ‘The Wind begun to rock the Grass’ and ‘Ample make this Bed’.

209 Niles’s rejection of ED: L814a.

210 dull: John Matteson, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father (NY: Norton, 2007), 335. According to biographer Susan Cheever (in conversation), Alcott herself thought it dull, resistant as she was to writing for children.

210 HH and the Native Americans: Susan L. Mizruchi, Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. iii, 549-52; Showalter, A Jury of Peers, 200-3; and Loeffelholz, From School to Salon, 131-61.

211 ‘What portfolios . . .’: L937a.

211 ‘I hope . . .’; ‘tender permission’: (c. early 1878). MLT omitted these lines in her 1894 edition of ED’s letters and Johnson printed this less interesting truncated version in L537 and L591. Houghton: MS Am 111.10 (4). The MSS were lost then rediscovered amongst the Houghton collection.

211 ‘light a world’: ED to Whitney (c. autumn