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MS Am 1118.7

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Miscellaneous papers: Guide.

Houghton Library, Harvard College Library

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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

Last update 2007 November 19

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b
Call No.: MS Am 1118.7
Creator: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
Title: Miscellaneous papers,
Date(s): 1858-1899.
Quantity: 1 box (.3 linear ft.)
Abstract: Miscellaneous papers by and about the poet, Emily Dickinson, and the Dickinson family.

Acquisition Information:

Acquired from various sources at various times. See items for full acquistion information.

Access Restrictions:

Access to the originals requires the permission of the curator.

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Copyright:

Copyright in the works of Emily Dickinson is held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and others. For permission to quote from or reproduce manuscript material of Dickinson, contact the Curator of Manuscripts, Houghton Library. For permission to quote from published editions of Dickinson's work that are still in copyright, contact Permissions Dept., Harvard University Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 02138-1499.

Historical Note

Dickinson was a poet of Amherst, Mass.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by author.

Scope and Content

Includes a variety of materials by and about the poet Emily Dickinson and the Dickinson family. Emily Dickinson items include letters, autograph poems, a black cake recipe, and a visiting card. Letters are to family members including Susan Huntington Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Martha Gilbert Smith, and others.

Family miscellany includes letters from Lavinia Norcross Dickinson and others.

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. This collection includes Johnson's "HCL SH."

JL = Johnson, Thomas, ed. The letters of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958.

Fr = Franklin, Ralph, ed. The poems of Emily Dickinson, variorum edition. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

Container List

Dickinson, Edward, 1803-1874. [Account for legal services rendered to Horatio Graves; receipted] : A.MS.s.; [Amherst], 1865 Apr. 11. 1s. (2p.) in 1 folder.
Acquisition Information: *62M-268 Bequest of Louise Graves; received 1963.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. The butterfly's Numidian gown [first line] : A.MS. (unsigned) poem; [n.p., ca. 1876]. 1s. (1p.) in 1 folder.
J 1387, Fr 1395.

Acquisition Information: *55M-289 Deposited by Mrs. R.T. Lyman.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Engraved visiting card. 1 folder.
Acquisition Information: *51M-155 Presented by Miss Adele Allen, Amherst, Mass.; received 1952 Jan. 23.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. A.L.s. to [Perez Dickinson Cowan]; [Amherst, 1880 Oct. 11]. 2s. (4p.) in 1 folder.
JL 671

Acquisition Information: *51M-216 Purchased from Mrs. Allan Davies, 49 Walworth Ave., Scarsdale, N.Y., the gift of Henry S. Grew, Esq.; received 1952 May 10.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. A.L.s. to [Susan Huntington Dickinson]; [Amherst, n.d.]. 1s. (2p.) in 1 folder.
Text: Is there anytihng I can do for little Mattie, for whom I am so sorry, or for her priceless Mama?

With cut signature ("Deeply, Emily"). 1s. (2p.) [Note from Curator of Manuscripts: This item was missing as of 2000 July 10].

Also with 1930 letter to Martha Dickinson Bianchi from the Hampshire Bookshop, including list of Emily Dickinson manuscripts, books, and objects borrowed for the Emily Dickinson Centenary. [These items moved to curatorial file].

Not in Johnson.

Provenance : Both letters presented to Alfred Leete Hampson by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and signed by her, 1923 and 1924.

Acquisition Information: *87M-65 Presented by Mrs. Alfred Leete Hampson, Amherst, Mass.; received 1980 June.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Letters to Mrs. [Joseph] Haven; [Amherst, 1858-1859]. 1 folder.
Mrs. Joseph Haven is Mary Emerson Haven. This grouping also includes a pressed dried flower.
Includes the following items:
- A.L.s. (Emilie) to Mrs. Haven, early summer 1858, 1s. (4p.) JL 191 (HCL Haven 1)
- A.L.s. (Emilie) to Mrs. Haven, late August 1858, 1s. (4p.) JL 192 (HCL Haven 2)
- A.L.s. (Emilie) to Mrs. Haven, 1859 Feb. 13, 1s. (4p.) JL 200 (HCL Haven 3)
Acquisition Information: *50M-191 Presented by Professor Frank Davidson, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; received 1951 Feb. 1.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. A.L.s. (your scholar) to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson]; [n.p., 1880 Nov.]. 1s. (2p.) in 1 folder.
JL 675

Acquisition Information: *65M-121 Presented by Mrs. Fairfield Porter, 49 South Main St., South Hampton, Long Island, N.Y.; received 1966Feb. 3.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. A.L.s. to [Joel Warren] Norcross; [Amherst, 1862 May]. 2s. (6p.) in 1 folder.
On the death of Lamira Norcross on 1862 May 3. Begins: Will it comfort my grieving uncle to know that Emily cares? . . .

Not in Johnson.

Acquisition Information: *87M-20 Presented by Mrs. Sylvia Viano, 506 Bougainvillea Ln., Vero Beach, Fla. 32960 through Miss Emily D. Viano; received 1988 June 30.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. A.L.s. (Emily) to [Martha Gilbert Smith?];[Amherst, late December 1878]. 1s. (1p.) in 1 folder.
Second page of letter only of JL 577 (HCL L 31).

Acquisition Information: *50M-367 Purchased from Charles Sessler, 1308 Walnut St., Philadelphia 7, Pa., the gift of Harold T. White, Esq., 40 Wall St., New York, N.Y.; received 1951 May 11.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Letters to Abby C. Farley, [n.p., 1882 May 8. 1 folder.
Includes the following items:
- A.L.s. to Abby [C. Farley], 2s. (4p.) *52M-63; JL 751
- A.L.s. to "Dear Friends" [Abby C. Farley], 2s. (4p.) *52M-64; JL 987
- A.L.s. to "Dear Friend" [Abby C. Farley], 2s. (3p.) *52M-65; JL 1006
Acquisition Information: *52M-63-65 Purchased with the Amy Lowell fund from Mrs. Anne Goodwin, 19 West 10th St., New York, N.Y.; received 1952 Oct. 17.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. [Manuscripts inserted in The Single Hound]. These manuscripts were pasted into Martha Dickinson Bianchi's copy of The Single Hound (1914).
Another copy of The Single Hound, at Dumbarton Oaks (call no. RARE RBR BENNETT DESK SHELF III DIC), inscribed by Martha Dickinson Bianchi, contains a MS poem of Emily Dickinson, "For Death--or rather" (Fr 644).
1 folder.
Includes:
- SH1 One Sister have I in our house [first line] : A.MS.s. (Emilie) poem, ink; [ca. 1858 Dec. 19. 1s. (2p.)
  J 14, JL 197
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- SH2 Adventure most unto itself [first line] : A.MS.s. (Emily) poem, addressed: Sue, pencil; ca. 1864. This is the final stanza for the poem, This consciousness that is unaware, sent to Susan Huntington Dickinson. 1s. (1p.)
  J 822, Fr 817
  
  Acquisition Information: Removed from EDR 473. Purchased from Alfred Leete Hampson, 1950 May, with funds given by Gilbert H. Montague, class of 1901, in happy memory of his wife Amy Angel Collier Montague.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. [Recipe for] black cake : A.MS. (unsigned); [Amherst, summer 1883]. 1s. (2p.) in 1 folder.
Johnson notes: This recipe accompanied a note and a bouquet of flowers. Note was from ED to Nellie Sweetser [Mrs. J. Howard Sweetser], summer 1883 [JL 835 Rosenbach 1170/18 (12)].

JL 835a (HCL)

Acquisition Information: *53M-139 Purchased with Duplicate money from Charles Sessler, 1308 Walnut St., Philadelphia 7, Pa.; received 1954 Apr. 27.
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Dickinson, Lavinia Norcross, 1833-1899. 2 A.L.s. to Louise B. Graves; Amherst, 1899 Feb. 8 and Mar. 9, with 1 env. 1 folder.
Includes AMs transcripts of these letters made by Louise B. Graves.

Acquisition Information: *51M-149 Deposited by Miss Louise B. Graves, 56 River St., Boston 9, Mass.; received 1951 Dec.

Dickinson, Lavinia Norcross, 1833-1899. A.L.s. to Clara Newman Turner and Anna Newman [Carleton]; [Amherst] [1885] Jan. 23. 2s. (6p.) in 1 folder.
Concerns Emily Dickinson.

Acquisition Information: *54M-225 (1) Presented by Mrs. George E. Pearl, 6 Maple St., Haverhill, Mass.; received: 1955.

Dickinson, Austin, d.1895. A.L.s. to John Long Graves; Amherst, 1880 Mar. 13. 1s. (2p.) in 1 folder.
Acquisition Information: *62M-269 Bequest of Miss Louise Graves; received 1963.

Norcross, Emily Danforth, artist. Photograph of supposed portrait of Emily Dickinson. 1 folder.
Of doubtful authenticity. Artist was the cousin of Emily Dickinson.

Original owned by the Starr Bookshop. Includes letter from Millicent Bingham to N.C. Godsoe, 1945 Jan. 11.

Acquisition Information: Gratis, n.d.

Photograph of students at a private elementary school in Palmer's Block, Amherst (Mass.), [ca.1860-1869]. 1 folder.
Students are identified on the verso.

Acquisition Information: *51M-154 Presented by Miss Adele Allen, Amherst (Mass.); received 1952 Jan. 23.

Turner, Clara Newman. [Emily Dickinson: reminiscences] : MS. (unsigned, unidentified hand); [n.p., n.d.]. 30s. (33p.) in 3 folders.
Acquisition Information: *54M-225 (2) Presented by Mrs. George E. Pearl, 6 Maple St., Haverhill, Mass.

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