AUTHOR’S NOTE
1L268.
2F446.
3L972.
4L939.
5Suzanne Juhasz. “‘The Landscape of the Spirit’” in Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Judith Farr (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996), 137.
6F690.
7George S. Merriam, The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, Vol. 1 (New York: The Century Co., 1885), 236.
8L281.
9Richard Wilbur, “Altitudes,” in Collected Poems, 1943–2004 (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2004), 305.
10L342a.
11L268.
ONE: ALL THINGS ABE READY
1Ebenezer Snell and Sabra Snell, The Meteorological Journal Kept at Amherst College, Ebenezer Snell Papers, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections.
2The Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), L80.
3L6.
4L7; L184.
5Jay Leyda. The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson, vol. 1, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960), 27.
6Ibid., 53.
7L7.
8Ibid.
9Ibid.
10Ibid.
11Ibid.
12L9.
13L5.
14Alfred Habegger, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (New York: Random House, 2001), 8.
15Leyda, vol. 1, 50.
16Ibid., 24.
17L2.
18L1.
19Leyda, vol. 1, 8, 56.
20Ibid., 81.
21Ibid., 31.
22L159.
23Leyda, vol. 1, 82.
24L116.
25L176.
26L133.
27Franklin and Hampshire Express, Friday, August 1, 1845.
28L827.
29L11.
30Leyda, vol. 1, 24; L6, L5.
31L6.
32Frederick Tuckerman, Amherst Academy: A New England School of the Past, 1814–1861, (Amherst: Printed for the Trustees, 1929), 103.
33Habegger, 143.
34Leyda, vol. 1, 29.
35L6.
36L8.
37L7.
38Leyda, vol. 1, 21.
39Leyda, vol. 1, 87.
40L7.
41Carolyn Lindley Cooley, The Music of Emily Dickinson’s Poems and Letters (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2003), 18.
42L184.
43Leyda, vol. 1, 59.
44L6.
45L3.
46L91.
47Ibid.
48Leyda, vol. 1, 81.
49L5.
50Tuckerman, 113.
51Leyda, vol. 1, 19
52Ibid., 36.
53Kate Phillips, Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 51.
54Ibid., 17.
55L6.
56Habegger, 171.
57Ibid.
58L11.
59Leyda, vol. 1, 86.
60Ibid.
61Ibid.
62Ibid., 86, 87.
63L13.
64L7.
65Ibid.
66L8.
67L7.
68Ibid.
TWO: IT IS HARD FOR ME TO GIVE UP THE WORLD
1L16, L304, L320, L645, L927, L471, L809, L32, L39, L907, L179.
2L12.
3Eleventh Annual Catalogue of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Mass., 1847–8. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections; Fidelia Fiske, Mary Lyon, Recollections of a Noble Woman (London: Morgan, Chase and Scott, n.d.), 42.
4L12.
5Recorded Items, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1840s, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections; http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/mhc/rg02/4statutes/box02_ff01/behavioral/01.htm
6L13.
7L14.
8L18; Catalogue of the Officers and Students at Amherst College for the Academical Year 1846–47. Amherst College Archives and Special Collections; Fiske, 23; Mount Holyoke College Journal Letter September 1847–June 2, 1848, 2; Eleventh Annual Catalogue of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary; L11, 18; L8; L13.
9Mary Dickinson to Edward Dickinson, December 22, 1822, Edward Dickinson Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
10Eleventh Annual Catalogue of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary; Martha Ackmann, The Matrilineage of Emily Dickinson, PhD Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 1988, 35.
11Edward Hammond Clarke, Sex in Education, Or, a Fair Chance for the Girls (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874), 51.
12E. A. Andrews, “The Religious Magazine and Family Miscellany,” 1 (1837).
13James E. Hartley, ed., Mary Lyon: Documents and Writings (South Hadley, MA: Doorlight Publications, 2008), 317.
14Jay Leyda, The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson, vol. 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960), 115; William H. Gibbs, Address Delivered Before the Literary Association of Blandford, Mass (G. W. Wilson, printer. Springfield, MA, 1850), 34; Celia S. Wright Strong files, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections.
15L17.
16Edward Hitchcock, The Power of Christian Benevolence Illustrated in the Life and Labors of Mary Lyon (New York: Published by the American Tract Society, 1858), 4.
17Susan Danley, “Mount Holyoke: The Grandest Cultivated View in the World.” in Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke, ed. Marianne Dozema (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002), 13–19.
18Edward Hitchcock, Reminiscences of Amherst College: Historical, Scientific, Biographical, and Autobiographical with Other and Wider Life Experiences (Northampton, Mass: Bridgman & Childs, 1863), 159.
19Leyda, vol. 1, 150; Alfred Habegger, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (New York: Random House, 2001), 15; Lucretia Dickinson to Edward Dickinson, March 26, 1823, Edward Dickinson Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
20Ackmann, 56; Mount Holyoke College Journal Letter September 1847–June 2, 1848, 5; Leslie Fields, email to the author, December 3, 2015, referencing Sarah Packard’s 1846 journal; Elizabeth Alden Green, Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke: Opening the Gates (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1979), 86.
21L15.
22L5.
23Kate Phillips, Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 54.
24L22.
25Mary Lyon Collection, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections; Eleventh Annual Catalogue of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
26Vivian Pollak, ed., A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 33.
27L18.
28Malvia Stanton Lang to Louisa Cowles, January 5, 1904, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections; Louisa Dickinson to John Morton Graves, May 1, 1857, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections.
29Fiske, 32, 42.
30L16.
31Elizabeth Hall to her friends, September 20, 1848, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections.
32Elizabeth Haven to her brother, October 28, 1839, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections.
33L10; L5.
34Ibid.
35Fidelia Fiske Papers, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections; Fidelia Fiske to Abigail Moore, August 19, 1843, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections.
36L22.
37L23.
38Prayer Meeting Notes, Mary Lyon Collection, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections; Writing of Mary Lyon Respecting Property, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections; Amanda Porterfield, Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke Missionaries (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 14; Sarah D. Stowe, History of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary During Its First Half Century, 1837–1887 (Springfield, Mass: Springfield Publishing Company, 1887), 78.
39Habegger, 14.
40L9.
41Mount Holyoke College Journal Letter September 1847–June
2, 1848, 18–20.
42Leyda, vol. 1, 135–36.
43Ibid., 135.
44Prayer Meeting Notes, Mary Lyon Collection, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections.
45L20.
46L10.
47Ibid.
48Mount Holyoke College Journal Letter, September 1847–June 2, 1848; Mary Lyon Collection, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections.
49Mary Lyon Collection. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections.
50Ibid.
51L10.
52L23.
53L35, L750.
54Mount Holyoke College Journal Letter, September 1847–June 2, 1848, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections.
55Ibid.
THREE: I’VE BEEN IN THE HABIT MYSELF OF WRITING SOME FEW THINGS
1L76; Jay Leyda, The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson, vol. 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960), 252.
2L23.
3L86.
4L82.
5Leyda, vol. 1, 211–12.
6Ibid., 245.
7Andover Theological Seminary Necrology, 1898–99 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1899), 354–55.
8L95.
9L71.
10Leyda, vol. 1, 193.
11Ibid., 183.
12Ibid., 222.
13Ibid., 225.
14Ibid., 193.
15L53.
16Leyda, vol. 1, 216.
17Cynthia Harbeson, email to the author, Jones Library, Amherst, Massachusetts, June 23, 2016.
18Esther Howland files, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections.
19L27.
20L34.
21Leyda, vol. 1, 167–68; The Indicator, February 1850, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections.
22L280.
23L63.
24L31.
25L30; Alfred Habegger, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (New York: Random House, 2001), 223.
26L31.
27L29.
28L31.
29Leyda, vol. 1, 243; Kate Phillips. Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, 74; L60.
30L62.
31L29.
32L86.
33Leyda, vol. 1, 203.
34Ibid., 203.
35L53.
36L45.
37Edward Hitchcock, The Power of Christian Benevolence Illustrated in the Life and Labors of Mary Lyon (New York: American Tract Society), 4.
38Elizabeth Alden Green, Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke: Opening the Gates. Hanover, NH, University Press of New England, 1979), 313.
39Recollections of Mary Lyon with Selections from Her Instructions to the Pupils of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary. (Boston, American Tract Society, 1866), v.
40Ibid., 24.
41L59.
42L30.
43L36.
44L79.
45L54.
46L30.
47Ibid.
48L43.
49L85; L36; Habegger, 243; L66.
50Richard B. Sewall, The Life of Emily Dickinson (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974), 405.
51Phillips, 69.
52L31.
53L36; L85.
54L57.
55Phillips, 65.
56Ibid., 72–73.
57Ibid., 75.
58Ebenezer Snell, The Metereological Journal Kept at Amherst College, February 1852.
59L936.
60Leyda, vol. 1, 248.
61Ibid., 249.
62L45, L58.
63L73.
64The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, 53–55.
65Acts 2:19.
66L35.
67L36.
68Cynthia Harbeson, email to the author, Jones Library, Amherst, Massachusetts, June 10, 2016.
69Springfield Daily Republican, February 20, 1852.
70Ibid.
71L77.
72Millicent Todd Bingham, Emily Dickinson’s Home: The Early Years as Revealed in Family Correspondence and Reminiscences (New York: Dover Publications, 1967), 268.
73L79.
74L46.
75Leyda, vol. 1, 246.
76Ibid., 251.
77L110.
FOUR: DECIDED TO BE DISTINGUISHED
1L199.
2The New York Times, January 5, 1859.
3Hampshire and Franklin Express, January 7, 1859.
4Hampshire and Franklin Express, December 31, 1858.
5L176.
6L212.
7Ibid.
8L77.
9L85.
10L182.
11Ibid.
12Ibid.
13Ibid.
14Jay Leyda, The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson, vol. 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960), 294.
15Ibid., 266.
16Ibid., 291.
17L131.
18L108.
19Leyda, vol. 1, 332.
20L102.
21L96.
22L94.
23L118.
24Leyda, vol. 1, 302.
25L88.
26L159.
27L144.
28L88.
29Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Recollections of a Country Girl 18—to 1900. Unpublished manuscript (1935), Brown University Library, Special Collections Department, Manuscript Division, 145–46.
30L199.
31Ibid.
32Ibid.
33L731.
34Alfred Habegger, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (New York: Random House, 2001), 309.
35L185.
36L133.
37Ibid.
38Biographical Encyclopedia of Massachusetts (Boston: Metropolitan Publishing and Engraving Company, 1883), 185.
39L159.
40Leyda, vol. 1, 302.
41L78.
42L176.
43L85.
44L166; L79.
45L93.
46L154.
47L176.
48Judith Farr “Emily Dickinson and Marriage: The ‘Etruscan Experiment,” in Reading Emily Dickinson’s Letters: Critical Essays, eds. Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cindy MacKenzie (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011), 186.
49L199.
50Leyda, vol. 1, 253.
51Kate Phillips, Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 85.
52L178.
53Helen Hunt Jackson Papers, Part 6, MS 0353, Colorado College, Tutt Library, Special Collections & Archives.
54Richard B. Sewall, The Life of Emily Dickinson (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974), 451–52, 460.
55Habegger, 298.
56Coleman Hutchison, “Eastern Exiles: Dickinson, Whiggery, and War,” Emily Dickinson Journal 13, no. 2, 2.
57L97.
58Habegger, 328.
59L94.
60L182.
61L155.
62F6.
63F33.
64L195.
65L114.
66The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, R. W. Franklin, ed. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1981), 28.
67F23.
68L146.
69L187.
70F21; F24; F26.
71L199.
FIVE: TALLER FEET
1Hampshire Franklin Express, November 22, 186; William A. Stearns, Adjutant Stearns (Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1862), not paginated; Jay Leyda, The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson, vol. 2 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960), 26, 31.
2L245.
3L234.
4L217.
5Hampshire Franklin Express, November 9, 1860; Leyda, vol. 2, 26.
6L298.
7Wayne E. Phaneuf and Joseph Carvalho III, Not So Civil War: Western Massachusetts at Home and in Battle, vol. 1 (Springfield, MA: The Republican Heritage Series, 2015), 13, 11, 45; Hampshire and Franklin Express, March 7, 1862.
8Hampshire and Franklin Express, S
eptember 27, 1861.
9L269.
10Susan Dickinson to Dwight Gilbert, January 10, 1853, Houghton Library, Dickinson Collection.
11Henry Root to Helen Hunt, Wednesday p.m., Helen Hunt Jackson Papers, Colorado College, Tutt Library, Special Collections and Archives.
12Helen Hunt to Henry Root, February 26, 1855, Colorado College, Tutt Library, Special Collections and Archives.
13Leyda, vol. 1, 268.
14Alfred Habegger, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (New York: Random House, 2001), 304.
15L93.
16L167; Leyda, vol. 1, 309, 311, 314; Habegger, 304–5.
17L173.
18F4.
19Leyda, vol. 2, 38.
20F24, F38, F44, F32, F48, F115, F110, F112, F181, F135.
21L238a.
22F945.
23L233.
24L248.
25Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet,” in Selected Writings of Emerson (New York: Random House, 1950), 319–41.
26Jack Capps, Emily Dickinson’s Reading: 1836–1886 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966), 116.
27Leyda, vol. 1, 350–51.
28Susan H. Dickinson, “Magnetic Visitors,” in Amherst (Alumni Quarterly) 33:4 (Spring 1981), 8–15, 27. (“Magnetic Visitors” is a slightly condensed reprint of Susan’s essay “Annual of the Evergreens” archived in the Houghton Library, Harvard University.)
29F45.
30F1263.
31For the intricacies regarding the multiple drafts of this poem, I have used Ralph W. Franklin, ed., The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998). All subsequent reference to this poem derive from this transcription of “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers,” F124.
32L277.
33George Merriam, The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, vol. 1 (New York: The Century Co., 1883), 34.
34Dickinson, “Magnetic Visitors,” 13.
35Habegger, 451. Bowles’s tendency to turn a thoughtful moment into humor also may have stemmed from insecurity about his education. While a man of wide-ranging intelligence, Bowles knew he had a poor education. He often found himself the only man in the room who had never gone to college, and the realization undermined him. Stephen G. Weisner, “Embattled Editor: The Life of Samuel Bowles,” PhD Dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1986, 9.
36Leyda, vol. 2, 28, 47; L241.
37Leyda, vol. 2, 41.
38Leyda, vol. 1, 368.
39Weisner, “Embattled Editor,” 66.
40Richard B. Sewall, The Life of Emily Dickinson (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974), 489–90.
41F11; Karen Dandurand, “Another Dickinson Poem Published in her Lifetime,” American Literature, 54 (October 1982) 434–37.
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