Lives Like Loaded Guns_ Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds - Lyndall Gordon [236]
264 ‘waste’: Burnt Norton: V.
264 plan to use the prose: To Higginson, op. cit.; also to William Hayes Ward (8 Feb 1891). Lowell Collection, Houghton. Letters to Ward in DEA: 265 eighty poems: Houghton. ‘Notes Towards a Volume of Emily Dickinson’s Writings’. 265 fifty-nine: Before the ED collection was bought by Harvard, Mary Hampson found this small packet of poems copied by SHD, about half of them unpublished and half in The Single Hound. Fr1686-1744. 265 spirit of strife: Phrase from Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. 265 LD’s legal protest to Ward: (21 Mar 1891). DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95. 266 Ward declined: Ward to WAD (21 Mar 1891). DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95. 266 ‘Indian Pipes and Witch Hazel’: TWH to Niles (27 July 1891). AC. 266 ‘fascicules’: LD talked of ‘the little volumes’. Thomas Johnson called them ‘packets’. But ‘fascicles’ has so far won out in Dickinson scholarship. 266 letters ‘a private trust . . .’: Franklin, Editing ED, 84. 266 Mrs Ford: She died soon after. 267 mutilation of ‘One sister . . .’: See figures 8, 9 and 10 in Franklin, The Editing of ED. 267 allegation it was WAD who did the mutilations: In Open Me Carefully, Smith and Hart ascribe the mutilation to Todd who was trying ‘to hide Susan’s central role in Dickinson’s writing process’ and to ‘suppress any trace of Susan as Emily’s primary audience’. 267 revival of Lady Macbeth imperatives: MLT to WAD. A&M, 371. 2 67 MLT omitted correspondence with SHD: MLT did have occasion to refer to the reproachful letter Emily sent when Sue, as a single young woman, went silent out west. ‘Perhaps this is the point at which our paths diverge’, Emily writes to Sue in 1854. Hardly representative of the lifelong tie that followed Sue’s return and capitulation to marriage. This sentence would of course appear to support MLT’s argument that the two women were mostly estranged. 268 cut references to sickness: Home, 54. 268 Norcross cousins shielded ED from biographical intrusion: Conceivably, they wished to conceal confidential comments about Lavinia, the feud, or Mabel Todd herself, but in such a case it would have been simple to eliminate the relevant letters rather than the entire batch. 268 Fanny Norcross to MLT: Todd 329. AC. Box 18, f.16. AB, 282-3. 269 MLT’s unpublished essay on the letters: ‘The Evolution of a Style’. Yale. 270 ‘Think of . . .’: MLT to E. D. Hardy (3 Dec 1894). AC. 270 ‘a peculiarly delicate. . .’: MLT to Niles (26 Feb 1894). AC. 270 ‘in the cold impartiality of print’: Ibid. 270 Hardy succeeded Niles: Niles died in Perugia in May 1894. 271 ‘This may all seem . . . queer . . .’: WAD to Hardy (25 Sept 1894). AC. 272 ‘in a heap’: WAD to Hardy (22 August 1894). AC. The aggressive tone covers the fact that WAD is in fact climbing down. This letter accepts joint royalties. 272 another run of copies: ALH, Foreword to FF, xiv, alleges that of the second printing of 1500 copies, 1200 were returned. This is hearsay only, part of the anti-Todd campaign to suggest that MLT’s 1894 edition of the Letters shouldn’t count. 272 crusader: LD to Niles (27 July 1891). AC. 272 ‘Thermopylae’: ED to MLT (19 July 1884). See ch. 9, above. 273 ‘whimsical’ etc: Preface to Poems (1890). 273 ‘definitely posed . . .’: MLT, Journals, V (18 Oct 1891), 98. Yale. Cited Sewall, i, 227. 273 Habegger’s persuasive analysis of ‘This is my Letter . . .’: Talk: ‘Some Problems’. 273 MLT’s review column: (Nov 1890). In Scrapbook, AC. She reviewed her own edition, together with three other Roberts Bros books. 274 ED unlike the daguerreotype: MLT to Niles (13 July 1893). AC. The portrait of the three Dickinson children is in EDR and a copy now hangs in the parlour of the Homestead. 274 ‘soften the eye . . .’ and ‘altogether softened’: MLT to Niles (17 Jan 1894). AC. 275 ‘neuralgic darts . . .