Lives Like Loaded Guns_ Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds - Lyndall Gordon [241]
343 ED ‘enjoyed . . .’: Yale: subject files: WAD, 496C, series VII, box 103, f.266 (n.d.).
343 ‘Are you going . . .’: MTB’s TS recollections, ‘Veterans Day, 1955’, op. cit.
343 MTB on ‘pi-racy’: Tape relating the legal battles in the feud, 1964. Historical recordings, Yale.
343 ‘It ought to be done . . .’: (27 July 1924). Houghton MS Lowell 19 (95).
343 ‘In so far . . .’: In conversation with MTB (1931). Yale: 496D, box 103, f.602.
344 the lock’s bell: MTB, introduction to Bolts of Melody (1945).
344 ‘extracted the Emily things . . .’: MTB to Amy Lowell (13 Nov 1924). Lowell Papers, op. cit.
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346 ‘growth . . .’; ‘Comédie humaine’: ‘Reminicences’ (28 Aug 1927). Yale: box 46, f.6.
347 ‘I hesitate to ask . . .’: ‘Reminiscences’ (29 Aug 1927). Yale: box 46, f.6.
347 ‘Though I respect . . .’: MTB’s notes on visits to Dr MacPherson. Yale: box 48, f.32. Yale also has her notes on further visits, in 1940-52, to Dr Ehrenclou (box 48, f.37). The latter sound banal, not up to MTB’s intelligence.
347 ALH lived at The Evergreens: MTB, ‘Veterans Day, 1955’, op. cit. ALH ‘had been living with [MDB] for several years’.
347 MDB’s rejected novels: ‘The Great Deliverer’ and ‘Andrew Djubzyke’.
348 ‘an almost unbroken narrative . . .’: MDB, introduction to ED, Further Poems, viii.
348 ‘trembles . . . dimity apron’: Ibid.
348 Louis Untermeyer: 16 March 1929. Quoted approvingly in FF, 52.
348 ‘the veils . . .’: MDB quotes this proudly to HM (27 Apr 1930). Houghton: bMS Am 1925.
349 MLT opening her treasure chest in 1929: A cagy letter (dated 7 July 1930) from MLT to Mr Green of Jones Library, Amherst, reveals that she had distributed Dickinson papers in four different places: the Springfield warehouse; a safe in Florida; a safe in New York (possibly Millicent’s when she was teaching at Columbia); and ‘another safe’. Jones Library.
349 MLT supported Taggard: MLT told MTB at this point that the two men in ED’s life were Gould and Wadsworth. It’s unlikely that Austin had ever named them.
349 Mary Lee Hall as Taggard’s source: Sewall, ii, 419-22.
349 ‘Hallelujah . . .’: L34
349 Miss Hall’s gossip about Gould: Taggard, 115, 336-7, 357.
349 ‘would never have . . .’: Taggard, 120.
350 Josephine Pollitt: ED: The Human Background of her Poetry (Harper, 1930).
350 Brittle Heaven: (NY: Samuel French, 1935). Pohl collaborated with Vincent Yorke. Copy in Bodleian Library. Original title was Stardust and Thistledown.
350 On stage: The play was produced at the Vanderbilt Theater, New York, and also at the Tremont Theater, Boston, during the 1933-4 season.
350 MDB and the centenary: Letters to HM in Houghton: bMS Am 1925 (197); letters to McCarthy, especially 23 Nov 1930, in Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97-1118.98 (123).
351 ‘driving force’; ‘Perhaps I exist . . .’; ‘worthy of a Henry James’; ‘ammunition’: MTB, ‘1929’. Yale: box 47, f.14.
351 ‘Much against . . .’: MLT to Mr Green of Jones Library (5 Feb 1930). Jones Library.
352 LD ‘did consent . . .’: Yale: box 82, f.390.
352 MLT’s preface to Letters, 1931: Preface and drafts at Yale: 496D, box 87, f.307.
353 MLT printed letters about Wadsworth: His friends, the Clarks, corresponded with ED in the mid-1880s.
354 ‘Existence’: J443, op. cit.
354 LD ‘had an enormous mouth . . .’ etc: ‘MLT Speaks’ (10 Oct 1931). Yale: box 101, f.242.
354 ‘Vinnie ought . . .’; Maggie ‘lied . . .’: Ibid.
355 ‘hideous’: Ibid.
355 ‘for that she practised . . .’ and ‘It is hard . . .’: To MTB who typed it (7 Sept 1932). Yale: 496D, box 103, f.602.
355 ‘That such have died . . .’: J1030/Fr1082. MLT had published this in Poems: Third Series (1896). The tombstone quotation is not quite accurate.
355 ‘point of no return’: ‘MTB’, interview in Current Biography (June 1961), 11.
356 ‘You must realize . . .’: MTB, ‘Veterans Day, 1955’, op. cit. Repeats it ‘1 May 1959’. Yale: box 46, f.8.
356 ‘Budgie . . .’; It was as if; ‘nothing else . . .’: MTB, ‘1 May 1959’. Yale: