Lives Like Loaded Guns_ Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds - Lyndall Gordon [235]
252 MLT’s daily visits to LD: Diary, November 1888. Yale: microfilm.
253 ‘No publisher . . .’: MLT recalled these words in ‘ED’s Literary Debut’, Harper’s Magazine, CLX (Mar 1930), 463-4.
253 commercial rather than private publication: A&M, 294.
253 MLT’s typewriter: Exhibited at the Homestead in Oct 2007. ED collection, Jones Library.
254 Assignation ‘up stairs’: MLT, Diary (16 Oct 1888). Yale.
255 Far off in the future . . .: Sewall and A&M, for instance, relay the Todd story.
255 ‘gave it up definitely. Then . . .’: MLT to TWH (16 Dec 1890). AC.
256 Look like the innocent flower: Macbeth. Letter from Lady Macbeth to her husband.
256 ‘uplifted’: (1890). A&M, 296.
257 baskets of poems; transcribing at Vinnie’s; hustled out of sight: Recalled by DPT. MTB, ‘Notes taken during the talk with my father’ (typed Oct 1967). Yale.
257 Miss Graves’s mistakes: Franklin, Editing ED, 13-14.
257 DPT helped to sort: DPT’s reminiscence of MLT’s editing, as told to MTB (Sept 1934). He was by then mentally ill, but what he says rings true. Yale.
257 ‘comets of thought’: MLT to Mr E. D. Hardy (Dec 1894), who replaced Niles (following his death in May 1894) at Roberts Bros, when she proposed they publish a Dickinson yearbook with her ‘comets of thought’ for each day. AC.
257 DPT and Olive Schreiner: Niles to MLT (13 Oct 1891). AC. MLT had read The Story of an African Farm in 1888. Her diary notes that she didn’t like it.
258 TWH came to discuss transcripts: Diary. Yale: microfilm. Wineapple, White Heat, 276. There’s conflicting evidence (from MLT) that she called on him at his home at 25 Buckingham Street, Cambridge, or perhaps these were different occasions. Wineapple suggests plausibly that ‘Mabel enhanced her role as Dickinson’s perspicacious sponsor’.
258 MLT’s version of meeting with TWH; TWH astonished: MLT, Journals, IV, 75. Yale.
258 ‘I don’t know . . .’: WAD to MLT (25 Apr 1890). A&M, 358.
258 ‘unwise to perpetuate . . .’: Niles to TWH (10 June 1890) from Arlington in Boston. AC. Confirmed in MLT, Journals, V, 78. Yale.
259 reader’s report: enclosed in reply from Mr Niles. AC.
259 ‘I died for Beauty’: (c. 1862). J449/Fr448.
259 LD as ‘Maltese pussycat’: MLT, Journals, V, 77. Yale: microfilm.
260 MLT justified her editing: Journals, V (30 Nov 1890).
260 ‘a shaft of light . . .’: Quoted by MLT in her essay ‘The Evolution of a Style’. Yale.
260 ‘I never lost as much but twice’: (c. autumn 1858). J49/Fr39.
261 ‘As she stood . . .’: The Commonwealth, Boston (20 Feb 1892), cited AB, 196.
261 ‘kill’: MLT, Journals, V, 80. Yale.
261 never met face to face; ‘flitting’: Admitted under legal cross-questioning. See ch. 12.
261 Howells on ED: review for Harper’s (Jan 1891).
262 Elihu Vedder on ED: DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95, box 8.
262 ‘love at first sight’: (12 Jan 1892). DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95.
262 Christina Rossetti on ED: Niles to MLT (17 Feb 1891). AC.
262 Alice James on ED: (6 Jan 1892). Diary of Alice James, 227.
262 ‘I’m Nobody’: (c. late 1861). J288/Fr260.
263 London Daily News on ED: (Dec 1891).
263 reviews: MLT employed a cutting service, and kept a scrapbook. AC: box 20, f.1.
263 ‘You are the only person . . .’: TWH to MLT (15 Dec 1890). Todd Papers, AC.
263 stopped speaking: MLT, Journals, V (16 June 1891), 86.
263 ‘for her’ and ‘I think . . .’: SHD to TWH (c. 1890). AC: Todd, 110-11.
263 ‘laziness’: Journals, V (30 Nov 1890). Yale. Well-chosen lines quoted in A&M.
263 ‘Just lost’: In pencil addressed ‘Sue’. First published, entitled ‘Called Back’, in the Independent, 43 (12 Mar 1891), 1, repr. J160/Fr132. MS in the Univ of Virginia. Early in 1861 ED made another fair copy for booklet 10. Contesting correspondence in AB, 114-20.
263 the wind from ‘beyond the world’: ‘2nd Debate between the Body and Soul’ (1911)