Lives Like Loaded Guns_ Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds - Lyndall Gordon [240]
332 MDB to Frothingham after SHD’s death: (13 Feb 1914). DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95.
332 ‘Your praise is good . . .’: (c. summer 1861). L238. Quoted by MDB in Preface, The Single Hound.
333 ‘Adventure most unto itself . . . ’: Became last stanza of ‘This consciousness that is aware’ (c. 1864-5). J822/Fr817. The MS addressed to ‘Sue’ and signed ‘Emily’ was pasted into MDB’s copy of this volume. The Single Hound, 7.
333 ‘I fit for them’: The Single Hound, 94. 3
33 ‘The Devil . . .’: (c. 1879). J1479/Fr1510. The Single Hound, 107, preferring the alternative ‘finest’ to ‘best’ friend in line 2. This alternative is more pleasing to the ear and subtler as to sense.
333 Kate Scott Turner Anthon’s recollections: Letter (8 Oct 1914) from Whitebridge, Grasmere, England, to MDB on receiving copy of The Single Hound. DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95.
334 ‘Vesuvius at Home’: ‘Volcanoes be in Sicily’ (transcribed by SHD). J1705/Fr1691. Adrienne Rich used the phrase as title for her brilliant essay on ED.
334 volcanic narrative; Pompeii: ‘I have never seen “Volcanoes”—’ (c. spring 1860). J175/Fr165.
334 ‘beloved old spot’: To Frothingham (6 Dec 1914). DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95.
334 ‘some of the days . . .’: Ibid.
334 ‘Just the changing lights . . .’: To Frothingham (13 Feb 1914).
334 ‘to us’: To Frothingham (6 Dec 1914), op. cit.
334 ‘a passionate attachment’ in Germany: MTB, TS reminiscence, ’12 May 1959’. Yale: box 46, f.8. MTB does not name this woman on paper, but details she relays on tape correlate with a companion in Germany called Marta Milinowsky, who had an American mother and was head of the piano department at Vassar until 1958.
335 ‘humbled’: ‘12 May 1959’. Yale: box 46, f.8.
335 Joseph Thomas: Ibid.
335 MTB’s geography of France: (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1919).
336 privilege: letter to Mr Green of Jones Library after Bingham’s death in 1952.
337 ‘It revolts . . . me’: Autobiographical TSS, ’Reminiscences: 28 August 1927’. Yale: box 46, f.6.
338*‘re-editing’: MDB’s claim in letter to McCarthy (23 Nov 1930). Houghton: Correspondence with McCarthy: bMS Am 1118.97-1118.98 (123).
339 ‘scarcely seen’: To SHD (Feb 1884), on being shown a photo of MDB at 18. L886. MDB is not mentioned by name in this letter but the editor surmises the reference must be to her.
340 ‘of course’: Amy Lowell to MLT (23 Jan 1923). Houghton: bMS Lowell 19.
340 ‘will perform a life . . .’: MLT to Amy Lowell (8 Sept 1923). Houghton: bMS Lowell 19 (1211).
340 ‘my dear mis-read Emily’: To Amy Lowell (17 Sept 1923). Ibid.
340 ‘dear Miss Lowell’: (26 Nov 1923). Ibid.
340 asked MTB to put a stop to DPT: Letter (30 Jan 1924). Ibid.
340 Wadsworth’s image in the twentieth century: One example is Albert J. Gelpi in Emily Dickinson: The Mind of the Poet (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1965): ‘Wadsworth would seem the unquestionable choice for Master.’ The first ED biographer of the twenty-first century, Alfred Habegger, in a talk, ‘Some Problems’, is rightly sceptical of ‘the patently spurious elements in Bianchi’s highly colored version of the romance where she suggests that ED fell instantly in love and then loftily renounced her married lover’.
340 MDB’s Wadsworth legend: LL, 46-50. MDB misdates 1855 visit to Philadelphia as 1853.
341 ED on Wadsworth: L727, 764 and 737.
341 ‘best earthly friend’: To James D. Clark (March 1883). L807.
341 ‘It’s easy to invent a Life’: (c. 1863). J724/Fr747.
341 MTB’s copy of LL: Yale. Ridicule of HHJ embellishment, 74.
342 ‘astonishingly good’ reviews: To Amy Montague (9 June 1924). Montague Papers.
342 MDB’s new collection of poems: The Wandering Eros, published by HM, following her ED books.
342 Samuel Eliot Morrison: HM to MDB (14 Oct 1924). Houghton: bMS Am 1925.
343 Ned’s class: To Amy Montague (9 June 1924). Montague Papers.
343 review of MDB’s poems: clipping in HM correspondence. Houghton: bMS Am 1925 (197).
343 1924 as the first time Mamma spoke of the Dickinsons: MTB, historical recording