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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Am 1118.10

Emily Dickinson poems and letters to Maria Whitney

Overview

Poems of Massachusetts poet Emily Dickinson and letters from Dickinson to Maria Whitney.

Dates

  • Creation: 1878-1884

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the originals requires the permission of the curator.

Copyright:

For permission to quote from or reproduce from manuscript material of Dickinson, contact the Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library. For permission to quote from published editions of Dickinson's work that are still in copyright (such as the Johnson and Franklin editions of the poems) and for all commercial uses of Emily Dickinson texts, write to the Permissions Department, Harvard University Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 02138-1499 or use their online form (HUP does not accept permissions requests by email or fax): http://www.hup.harvard.edu/rights/permissions.html

Conditions Governing Use

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Extent

.1 linear feet (1 volume)

Contains 5 poems by Dickinson as well as 8 letters from Dickinson to Maria Whitney.

Biographical / Historical

Dickinson was a poet of Amherst, Massachusetts.

Arrangement

Organized into the following series:

  1. I. Poems
  2. II. Letters

Immediate Source of Acquisition

76M-37. Gift of Elizabeth Whitney Putnam c/o Mr. Calvin C. Bartels, Chemical Bank, 277 Park Avenue, New York, New York; received: 1976.

Existence and Location of Copies

Readers are expected to use the facsimiles available.

Bibliography

References included in the notes are to: J = Johnson, Thomas, ed.. The poems of Emily Dickinson : including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1955. JL = Johnson, Thomas, ed. The letters of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958. This collection includes Johnson's "HCL G" letters. Fr = Franklin, Ralph, ed. The poems of Emily Dickinson, variorum edition. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
  • J = Johnson, Thomas, ed.. The poems of Emily Dickinson : including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1955.
  • JL = Johnson, Thomas, ed. The letters of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958. This collection includes Johnson's "HCL G" letters.
  • Fr = Franklin, Ralph, ed. The poems of Emily Dickinson, variorum edition. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
Title
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Emily Dickinson poems, and letters to Maria Whitney, 1878-1884: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou00569

Repository Details

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