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356 warning not to publish in MDB’s lifetime: MTB, ‘Veterans Day, 1955’, op. cit.

356 mother as co-discoverer: Yale: 496D, box 46, f.1.

356 ‘objectionable book’: To HM (16 Oct 1931). HM. Houghton: bMS Am 1925 (197).

356 Field warned: Letter to MDB (18 Nov 1931). Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97-1118.98 (79).

357 Todd’s strong position: Greenslet to MDB (28 Dec 1931). Ibid.

357 ‘personal book . . .’: MDB to HM (14 July 1932). Ibid.

357 ‘disposes . . .’: To HM (25 July 1932). Ibid.

357 Greenslet’s warnings to MDB: (15 July and 19 Aug 1931). Ibid.

357 wearing white . . . ‘a memorial . . .’: FF, 51.

357 ‘Readers waited . . .’: Untermeyer, ‘Thoughts after a Centenary’ (20 June 1931).

357 memorandum: (23 Sept 1931), just before Letters (1931) came out. HM correspondence. Houghton: bMS Am 1925.

358 American Literature: Morris U. Schappes, ‘Errors in Mrs. Bianchi’s Edition of ED’s Letters’ (1933).

358 pedantic fuss: MDB to Mr Linscott at HM (11 Apr 1933). HM correspondence, op. cit.

358 MDB on photo of ED as child: To Lovell Thompson at HM (14 Oct 1932). Ibid.

359 The inaccurate editing went on: Easy though it has been to ridicule the inaccuracies of these volumes, in Further Poems of 1929 MDB and ALH did attempt (ahead of later, professional editors Johnson and Franklin) to register the poet’s lineation. In this they anticipate post-structuralist textual studies of the 1990s (continuing into the present century).

359 ‘disarray . . .’: Cited by Franklin, The Editing of ED’s Poems.

359 Dickinson exhibit at World’s Fair: MDB to HM (20 July 1933). HM correspondence, op. cit.

359 MDB grateful for support: To Amy Collier Montague (28 July 1933). Montague-Collier Papers, NYPL.

359 ‘save such as we of the heart’: (7 Apr 1934). Ibid.

359 ‘Be Amy . . .’: (7 Apr 1935). Ibid.

359 ‘Whatever she did . . .’: ‘10 November 1934’. Yale: box 46, f.7.

359 ‘In the early days . . .’: TS reminiscence (1935). Yale: box 46, f.8.

360 4 Feb 1938; fog; the octopus; ‘Hatred . . .’: ‘4 February 1938’. Yale.

362 Indian Pipes on the cover: Paperback edition by University of Michigan in 1957, repr. 1960.

362 MDB’s will: (15 November 1938). AC: MDB’s Misc. MSS, folder 2.

363 ‘pilgrims’: ALH to Amy Montague (Sept 1940). Montague Papers.

363 Pearl Strachan: interview in the Christian Science Monitor, Boston (4 Sept 1940), illustrated with photo of The Evergreens and the doctored image of ED. Enclosed with the above letter to Amy Montague.

363 worked with ALH: ALH to Amy Montague (6 Oct 1940). Montague Papers.

363 ‘both told me. . .’: Preface to new edition of Letters (1931), with drafts at Yale: 496D, box 87, f.307.

364 will ‘was never found’: 1931 is pencil date of TS fragment amongst MTB’s conversations with Mamma. Yale: 496D, box 103, f.603.

364 ‘no authorization’; ‘lick it yet’; ‘I should have collapsed . . .’: ‘25 May 1959’. Yale: box 46, f.8.

364 Alexander Lindey: MTB, tape recording (1964) on the history of legal battles in the feud, op. cit.

365 ‘feuds . . . dissolved in death’: AB, 399.

365 photo of cheque: AB, 194.

365 ‘blight’: AB, 15.

365 SHD the reason for ED’s solitude: Ibid.

366 MTB’s 1955 statement: ‘Veterans Day, 1955’, op. cit.

367 Wallace Keep: ‘Recollections of Lavinia Dickinson’ (15 April 1933). Yale: 496D, box 84, f.233. AB, 29-9.

367 MTB to Keep: (9 May 1945). From home, 1661 Crescent Place, Washington DC.

368 so it proved: MLT’s diaries show that Alice Hill was often with her at The Dell.

368 ‘crotchety’; unimportant; ‘cantankerous’: AB, 247-8.

17: POSTHUMOUS CAMPAIGNS

This chapter is indebted to an article by Leslie A. Morris, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at the Houghton Library: her Foreword to Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium, where she notes how, after the lawsuit, ‘the feud between the Dickinson and the Todds colored all subsequent work on Emily Dickinson’.

369 ‘to take care of Emily’: MH repeats this to Gilbert Montague in a letter (1 Aug 1952) that reflects on how William (Bill) McCarthy had controlled