Part 16 (1/2)
”How enviable their fame!” ”What man has done”: EdD to END, July 12, 1826, quoted in Pollak, A Poet's Parents, A Poet's Parents, p. 29; see also p. 54 of that work. Pollak rightly points out that Edward d.i.c.kinson is quoting Edward Young's ”Night Thoughts” Emily will later do so as well. p. 29; see also p. 54 of that work. Pollak rightly points out that Edward d.i.c.kinson is quoting Edward Young's ”Night Thoughts” Emily will later do so as well.
”half a house, & a rod square”: EdD, quoted in YH, YH, 1:30. 1:30.
”It does seem to me”: EdD to END, March 18 [1838], Houghton.
Had Mrs. d.i.c.kinson been willing to relocate: AB, AB, p. 233. p. 233.
”His failing was he did not understand himself”: Quoted in YH, YH, 2:224. 2:224.
”I think it will do him the very most good”: ED to WAD, June 20, 1852, Letters, Letters, 1:213. 1:213.
proof positive that he was the man: See HHJ to Henry Root, [winter 1855], Colorado.
When it pa.s.sed at the end of May: See Merriam, The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, 1:117. 1:117.
”Our house is crowded daily”: ED to WAD, June 19, 1853, Letters, Letters, 1:257. 1:257.
”of every bird & flower”: LD to MLT, April 30, 1883, Yale.
”I look around me”: WAD to Martha Gilbert, [May 11, 1852], quoted in Home, Home, p. 241. p. 241.
”I ask myself, Is it possible”: WAD to Martha Gilbert, [May 11, 1852], quoted in Home, Home, p. 242. p. 242.
”early, earnest, indissoluble”: ED to Charles Clark, [June 16, 1883], Letters, Letters, 3:779. 3:779.
”I, you must know”: Green, ”A Reminiscence of Emily d.i.c.kinson,” p. 291.
”Vinnie is full of Wrath”: ED to Jonathan L. Jenkins, September 1877, Letters, Letters, 2:592. 2:592.
”The tie is quite vital”: LL, LL, p. 70. p. 70.
”A dire person!”: quoted in AB, AB, p. 146n. p. 146n.
Although Thomas Wentworth Higginson's father: For an account of TWH's religious upbringing, see CY, CY, pp. 3536. pp. 3536.
”Were I a christian, my dear”: EdD to END, March 18, 1838, Houghton.
”with a militant Accent”: ED to Elizabeth Holland, [January 1875], Letters, Letters, 2:537. 2:537.
”the working of G.o.d's spirit among us”: EdD, quoted in Wolff, Emily d.i.c.kinson, Emily d.i.c.kinson, p. 126. p. 126.
”Christ is calling everyone here”: ED to Jane Humphrey, [April 3, 1850], Letters, Letters, 1:94. 1:94.
”I feel that I am sailing”: ED to Abiah Root, March 28, 1846, Letters, Letters, 1:31. 1:31.
”I was almost persuaded to be a christian”: ED to Abiah Root, January 31, 1846, Letters, Letters, 1:27. 1:27.
one of the ”lingering bad bad ones”: ED to Abiah Root, May 7, 17, 1850, ones”: ED to Abiah Root, May 7, 17, 1850, Letters, Letters, 1:98. 1:98.
”The sh.o.r.e is safer, Abiah”: ED to Abiah Root, [1850], Letters, Letters, 1:104. 1:104.
”I was taken to a Funeral”: ED to TWH, [June 1877], Letters, Letters, 2:583. 2:583.
”Sermons on unbelief ever did attract me”: ED to SGD, November 27December 3, 1854, Letters, Letters, 1:311. 1:311.
”'We thank thee Oh Father'”: ED to MCH, [late summer 1876], Letters, Letters, 2:561. 2:561.
”Doubts of all things earthly”: Herman Melville, Moby-d.i.c.k, Billy Budd and Other Writings Moby-d.i.c.k, Billy Budd and Other Writings (New York: Library of America, 2000), p. 423. (New York: Library of America, 2000), p. 423.
”Her compositions were strikingly original”: Daniel Taggart Fiske to MLT, Yale.
”firmly established in the faith”: See Catalogue of Amherst Female Seminary, Catalogue of Amherst Female Seminary, (Amherst, Ma.s.s.: Adams, 1835). (Amherst, Ma.s.s.: Adams, 1835).
”We have a very fine school” ”I am growing handsome very fast indeed!”: ED to Abiah Root, May 7, 1845, Letters, Letters, 1:13. 1:13.
”small, like the Wren”: ED to TWH, July 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:411. 2:411.
Emily once ”put four superfluous kittens”: MDB, preface to The Single Hound, The Single Hound, by ED, p. xiii. by ED, p. xiii.
”That her thesis is partially true”: Bishop, ”Unseemly Deductions,” p. 20.
she was said to confide to a visitor: See Green, ”A Reminiscence of Emily d.i.c.kinson,” p. 291.
”Home was always dear to me”: ED to WAD, February 17, 1848, Letters, Letters, 1:62. 1:62.
”There is a great deal of religious interest here”: ED to Abiah Root, January 17, 1848, Letters, Letters, 1:60. 1:60.
”There were real ogres at South Hadley then”: Home, Home, p. 75. p. 75.
”They thought it queer”: ED, quoted in Clara Newman Turner, ”My Personal Acquaintance with Emily d.i.c.kinson,” in Sewall, 1:269.
”I have neglected the one thing needful one thing needful”: ED to Abiah Root, May 16, 1848, Letters, Letters, 1:67. 1:67.
”Home,” she would write: ED to Perez Cowan, [1870], Letters, Letters, 2:483. 2:483.
”Sewing Society has commenced again”: ED to Jane Humphrey, January 23, 1850, Letters, Letters, 1:84. 1:84.
”vain imaginations,” as she jested: ED to Abiah Root, January 29, 1850, Letters, Letters, 1:88. 1:88.
”Pain-has an Element of Blank-”: Fr 760.
”She was full of courage”: Quoted in Sewall, 1:222.
”far surpa.s.sing” ”and that sublimer lesson”: ED to Edward Everett Hale, January 13, 1854, Letters, Letters, 1:282283. 1:282283.
the ”friend who taught me Immortality”: ED to TWH, April 25, 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:404. 2:404.
what was ”most grand or beautiful in nature”: ED to Edward Everett Hale, January 13, 1854, Letters, Letters, 1:282. 1:282.
”My dying Tutor”: ED to TWH, June 7, 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:408. 2:408.