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315 ‘pinch . . .’: Ned to Frothingham (17 Jan 1898).

315 Ned’s agony: His cousin, daughter of Martha Gilbert Smith, speaks of his ‘agony’ in a condolence letter to SHD. Hay Library.

315 fiction of earlier date: MDB to Frothingham (2 May 1913): ‘Sixteen years ago tomorrow Ned died.’

315 the case killed Ned: Plausible suggestion in A&M, 423. Frothingham sent roses to Alice Hill, who replied to thank him on 11 May 1898 (Houghton: bMS Am 1996 (4)).

315 ‘After Ned’s death . . .’: Letter to MTB (20 Feb 1935), cited Sewall, i, 261. See also Mary Lee Hall to Genevieve Taggard, biographer of ED (4 Nov 1929 and 14 Sept 1930), Yale: Todd-Bingham archive. Cited in Sewall, i, appendix II, 254.

317 LD tore out . . .: DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95.

317 ‘Did Miss Vinnie . . .’: letter to Mary Lee Hall (20 Mar 1934). Cited Sewall, i, appendix II, 260.

317 ‘Millicent, you never . . .’: (20 Feb 1935). Cited Sewall, i, appendix II, 261.

318 ‘decided not to breathe . . .’ etc: An attentive recorder, MLT made a collection of LD’s sayings. Yale: series V, box 82, f.402.

318 ‘to spare expense . . .’: To Norcross cousins (7 Oct 1863). L285.

318 LD’s poems: folder, typed and dated 1898. DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95.

319 MLT noted LD’s death: Journals, VIII. Yale: microfilm, reel 9.

319 MLT and the medium: Journals, IX. Yale: microfilm, reel 9.

319 Bleak House: MLT, Diary (26 July 1897). Yale: microfilm, reel 3.

321 Amy Angell Collier: Correspondence in Montague Papers, MS division, New York Public Library.

322 ‘heartbreaking associations’: MDB to Frothingham (1903). DFP.

322 ‘victims . . .’: MDB to Frothingham (25 May 1907). DFP.

322 ‘slanders’ etc: to Frothingham (22 Mar 1907). DFP.

322 ‘seriously ill’: MDB to Frothingham (25 May 1907). DFP.

323 ‘some’; ‘fraudulent business . . .’: Montague, recalling this talk, to Mary Hampson (7 Aug 1952). Contracts and Correspondence, Houghton: bMS Am 1118.18.

323 ‘spell’; ‘hypnotic’; ‘clasping . . .’: Essay, ‘New Year’s Eve, 1900’. Yale.

324 MLT on DPT’s affairs; ‘justification’: Journals, cited by A&M, 50-1.

325 ‘Austin was mine . . .’: Essay, ‘New Year’s Eve, 1900’, op. cit.

325 ‘Sue hated . . . love’: MLT’s reminiscences in note form. Yale: subject files: WAD, 496C, series VII, box 103, f.266 (n.d.).

325 ‘God . . .’; ‘killing’; ‘irrevocably’; ‘wickedest . . .’: Essay, ‘New Year’s Eve, 1900’, op. cit.

325 Sue’s death: SHD died of a heart condition at the age of eighty-two.

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326 MTB’s memories: Yale: Bingham Papers, 496D. Autobiographical TSS, mainly in box 46.

326 ‘my early childhood . . .’: MTB, aged eighty-four, to her mother’s friend Mr Green, curator of Jones Library, Amherst (28 Jan 1965). Jones Library, Special Collections.

327 sees ED ‘every day’: MTB, taped recollections. Sterling Library, Yale: Historical Recordings. For LD in the kitchen, see AB, 14-15.

327 MTB’s memories of the dining room, Maggie and LD: ‘Reminiscences: 23-30 August 1927’. Yale: box 46, f.6.

327 ‘That they could be human . . .’: Ibid.

327 ‘dear quaking voice’: (21 July 1933). Yale: box 46, f.1.

328 MLT’s rouge: (21 July 1933, nine months after MLT’s death). Yale: box 46, f.7.

328 ‘X woman’: (15 July 1905). Yale: box 46, f.6.

328 ‘primly placed’: Ibid.

329 ‘all that Mamma has left now’: MTB recalled making this remark to ‘the snake’ of Amherst, Mrs Grosvenor. ‘Reminiscences’, op. cit.

329 ‘obnoxious . . .’; ‘Deliver . . .’: Memoir of 1905. Autobiographical pieces, op. cit.

330 ‘imperial Girl’: (June 1885). L987.

330 jaunty hat: ED to MDB (late 1882). L787. The photograph (Houghton) which prompted this note has inscribed on the back: ‘Mattie Dickinson, 19 November 1882’.

330 ‘freedom . . .’: FF, 66.

330 ‘live in vain’: L403.

331 ‘martial . . .’: To MDB (Oct 1884). L942.

331 ‘worse’: Journals, V (Oct 1891), 87. Yale: microfilm.

331 ‘I knew . . .’: To SHD. L886.

331 The Single Hound: Reissued, with MDB’s Preface, by