by Julie Dobrow
22.MTB, “Journal,” 1919, MTBP, VII, 129–18.
23.Ibid.
24.Elizabeth Horan, “To Market: The Dickinson Copyright Wars,” The Emily Dickinson Journal (1996): 93.
25.http://www.edickinson.org/resources#selected-posthumous-editions.
26.Ancestors’ Brocades, 378.
27.Ibid.
28.Ibid.
29.Martha Dickinson Bianchi papers, MDB.
30.Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, “Review of The Single Hound,” New Republic, August 14, 1915.
31.Harriet Monroe, “Review of The Single Hound,” Poetry V, no. 3 (December 1914).
32.Martha Dickinson Bianchi, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924).
33.Martha Dickinson Bianchi, The Single Hound (Boston: Little, Brown, 1914), vi.
34.Ancestors’ Brocades, 383.
35.Ibid., 384.
36.Ibid.
37.MTB to Amy Lowell, November 13, 1924, MTBP, II, 3–48.
38.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 103.
39.MLT, “Journal,” October 1929, MLTP, III, 48, reel 9.
40.MTB, “Journal,” April 5, 1929, MTBP, VII, 131–30–38.
41.Life, 234.
42.Bianchi, Single Hound.
43.Genevieve Taggard to MLT, June 24, 1929, MLTP, II, 23–671.
44.Mary Woolley to Anne Crowell, November 7, 1929, HLHU.
45.Horan, “Dickinson Copyright Wars,” 101.
46.MLT, “Emily Dickinson’s Literary Debut,” 471.
47.MLT, “Journal,” October 1, 1930, MLTP, III, 48, reel 9.
48.Home, xii.
CHAPTER 12: BRINGING LOST POEMS TO LIGHT
1.Home, xii.
2.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 86.
3.Ibid., 104, 87; MTB, “Reminiscences,” 1963, MTBP, II, 44–8, 33.
4.Home, xiii.
5.See Helen Vendler, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010).
6.Home, xiii–xiv.
7.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 153–154.
8.Ibid.; MTB, “Journal,” July 10, 1951, MTBP, VII, 131–30–38.
9.MTB, “Journal,” July 10, 1951, MTBP, VII, 131–30–38.
10.Home, xv.
11.Louis Untermeyer, “Thoughts after a Centenary,” Saturday Review of Literature, June 30, 1931.
12.MLT, “Journal,” n.d., MLTP, III, 48, reel 9.
13.Letters, xxii.
14.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 105.
15.Letters, x.
16.MTBP, V, 87–307, version 3. Note: Mabel wrote several versions of the preface. These versions are actually housed with Millicent’s papers, within the series on her Emily Dickinson work.
17.Horan, “Dickinson Copyright Wars.”
18.MLT, “Journal,” November 1, 1930, MLTP, III, 48, reel 9.
19.MLT, “The Story of Emily Dickinson’s Letters,” 1930, MLTP, V, 82–390.
20.MLT, “Journal,” 1930, MLTP, III, 48, reel 9; “Scrapbook, 1926–1930, VI, 89–12.
21.MLT, “Journal,” 1931, MLTP, III, 48, reel 9.
22.Martha Dickinson Bianchi to Theodore Frothingham, April 19, 1932, HLHU, 1996, 1.
23.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 105–106.
24.Horan, “Spoils of the Dickinson Legacy,” 68.
25.Edna Lou Walton, “Review of Letters of Emily Dickinson,” New York Times, November 22, 1931.
26.Marianne Moore, “Review of Letters of Emily Dickinson,” Poetry 41 (1934): 62–63; Ruth Corrigan, “Emily Dickinson: The Growth of Her Reputation in Periodical Criticism, 1890–1934” (MA thesis, Loyola University, 1934).
27.Morris Schappes, “Errors in Mrs. Bianchi’s Edition of Emily Dickinson’s Letters,” American Literature 4, no. 4 (January 1933): 369–84.
28.George Whicher, “Review of The Letters of Emily Dickinson,” American Literature 4, no. 3 (November 1932), 318–22.
29.MLT, “Journal,” May 27, 1932, MLTP, III, 48, reel 9.
30.Ibid., October 1, 1932; MLT, “Diary,” August 31, 1932, MLTP, III, 45, reel 7.
31.MTB, “Journal,” October 17, 1932, MTBP, VII, 131–30–38.
32.Howard Hilder to Arthur Curtiss James, October 1932, MLTP, VII, 112–392.
33.MTB, “Journal,” October 17, 1932, MTBP, VII, 131–30–38.
34.ED, Poem VIII in “Time and Eternity” in Todd and Higginson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series, 146. [Note: This poem is now known by its first line, “That Such have died enable Us” (poem 1030 in the Thomas Johnson edition).]
35.MTB, “Scrapbook,” 1932, MLTP, VII, 112A–393.
36.Nathan Haskell Dole, November 19, 1932, MLTP, VII, 111–388.
37.MTB, “A Friend of Amherst,” Amherst Record, November 9, 1932, MLTP, VII, 111–390.
38.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 154.
39.MTB, “Diary,” October 17, 1932, MTBP, VII, 137–62–64; MTB, “Reminiscences,” May 25, 1959, MTBP, II, 44–8.
40.MTB, “Diary,” October 23, 1932, MTBP, VII, 137–62–64.
41.MTB, “Psychiatric Notes,” 1942, MTBP, II, 48–36–37; MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 135.
42.MTB, “Psychiatric Notes,” 1942, MTBP, II, 48–36–37; MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 135; MLT to Charles Green, n.d., Jones.
43.MTB, “Reminiscences,” July 21, 1933, MTBP, II, 44–8.
44.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 90.
45.MTB, “Journal,” October 2, 1933, MTBP, VII, 131–30–38.
46.Ibid.
47.MTB to Arthur Curtiss James, May 13, 1934, MTBP, I, 3–45–46.
48.William Sheehan and Anthony Misch, “Ménage a Trois: David Peck Todd, Mabel Loomis Todd, Austin Dickinson, and the 1882 Transit of Venus,” Journal for the History of Astronomy 35, no. 2 (2004): 130–31.
49.MTB, “Notes,” n.d, MTBP, VII, 167–245.
50.MTB, “Psychiatric Notes,” 1943, MTBP, II, 48–36–37; MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 93.
51.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 94.
52.MTB, “Psychiatric Notes,” October 18, 1938, MTBP, II, 4–36–37.
53.MTB, “Notes,” September 10, 1937, MTBP, VII, 167–245.
54.MTB, “Psychiatric Notes,” 1938–1952, MTBP, II, 48–36–37.
55.Home, xiii.
CHAPTER 13: DEALING WITH “DICKINSONIANA”
1.MTB, “Journal,” August 20, 1934, MTBP, VII, 131, 30–38, 109–110.
2.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 100.
3.Ibid., 153–54.
4.MTB, “Journal,” August 20, 1934, MTBP, VII, 131–30–38, 110.
5.Ibid., 111.
6.Emily Dickinson, “Love,” Poem VII, Poems, Second Series, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891), 97. [Note: This poem is now known as “Wild nights—wild nights!” (poem 249 in the Thomas Johnson edition).]
7.MTB, “Journal,” 1934, MTBP, VII, 131–30–38, 110.
8.MTB, interview with Richard Sewall, June 17, 1963, MTBP, II, 46–13, 22.
9.Ancestors’ Brocades, ii.
10.Sydney McLean, “Review of Bolts of Melody and Ancestors’ Brocades,” American Literature 17, no. 4 (1946), 363–64; Babette Deutsch, “Miracle and Mystery,” Poetry 66 no. 5 (1945), 275.
11.MTB, “Journal,” February 16, 1945, MTBP, VII, 131–30–38; Robert Hillyer, New York Times, February 5, 1945.
12.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 128, 160.
13.MTB, “Reminiscences,” May 25, 1959, MTBP, II, 44–8. Note: Millicent’s publisher’s name changed over the years. Known as Harper & Brothers during most of her life, it became Harper & Row in 1962. She referred to it in differe
nt ways in her writings.
14.Horan, “Spoils of the Dickinson Legacy,” 88.
15.Ibid., 7; Charles Green, “An Emily Dickinson Bibliography,” 1930, 3–5, Jones; Dickinson Bianchi to Herbert Jenkins, May 11, 1930; MDB to Theodore Frothingham, April 19, 1932, HLHU, 1996, 1.
16.Theodore Frothingham to Martha Dickinson Bianchi, May 5, 1933; Horan, “Dickinson Copyright Wars,” 7.
17.Theodore Frothingham to Martha Dickinson Bianchi, May 5, 1933; Horan, “Dickinson Copyright Wars,” 7.
18.Bingham, Bolts of Melody (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945), xii, xv.
19.Ibid., xii.
20.Ibid., 301. [Note: This poem is now known as “The sun in reining to the west” (poem 1636 in the Thomas Johnson edition).]
21.Emily Dickinson, Poem 623, Bolts, 317. [Note: This poem is now known as “Soft as the massacre of Suns” (poem 1127 in the Thomas Johnson edition).]
22.Ibid., 317.
23.Ibid., xvii.
24.Ibid., xi.
25.Ibid.
26.Ad for Bolts of Melody, n.d., MTBP, V, 95–418–420.
27.Robert Hillyer, New York Times Book Review, April 15, 1945; Richard Sewall, “Review of Bolts of Melody,” New England Quarterly 18, no. 3 (1945): 409; Sydney McLean, “Review of Bolts of Melody and Ancestors’ Brocades,” American Literature 17, no. 4 (1946): 363; Babette Deutsch, “Miracle and Mystery,” Poetry 66, no. 5 (1945): 278.
28.George Whicher, “Review of Bolts of Melody and Ancestors’ Brocades,” New York Herald Tribune, April 21, 1945.
29.Ibid.
30.MTB, “Journal,” April 8, 1945, MTBP, VII, 131, 30–38.
31.“Books,” The New Yorker, April 21, 1945.
32.MTB, “Reminiscences,” July 28, 1964, MTBP, II, 44–8.
33.Ibid., May 25, 1959.
34.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 4–11–12, 118.
35.Ibid., 108.
36.Ibid., 106.
37.Revelation, 2.
38.Christopher Benfey, “Emily Dickinson’s Secret Lover,” Slate.com, October 9, 2008, http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2008/10/emily_dickinsons_secret_lover.html.
39.T. W. Higginson, in Revelation, 12.
40.Ralph W. Franklin, ed., The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, 1986), 6.
41.Ibid., 15, 22, 32.
42.Revelation, 3.
43.Ibid., 10.
44.Ibid., 33–34; This poem appeared in a letter to Judge Lord, Amherst manuscript 755—Emily Dickinson letter to Otis Phillips Lord—asc: 461, 1, ACA. [Note: This poem is now known as “How fleet, how indiscreet an one” (poem 1771 in the Thomas Johnson edition).]
45.See, for example, Howe, My Emily Dickinson; Judith Farr, ed., Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 1995).
46.Hillary Kelly, “Review of Emily Dickinson in Love, John Evangelist Walsh, Los Angeles Review of Books, July 22, 2012.
47.Susan Snively, The Heart Has Many Doors (Amherst, MA: White River Press, 2014), x.
48.https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/love_life.
49.Walter M. Merrill, “Review of Emily Dickinson: A Revelation,” New England Quarterly 28, no. 2 (1955): 283.
50.Jay Leyda, “Review of Emily Dickinson: A Revelation,” American Literature 27, no. 3 (1955): 436–37.
51.Founder’s Day citation, Dickinson College, May 1, 1952, Dickinson College Manuscripts and Archives; MTB, “Diary,” May 1, 1952, MTBP, VII–140, 72.
52.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 164.
53.Ibid., 124.
54.Ibid., 10.
55.MTB, “Diary,” July 9, 1952; July 27, 1952; August 2, 1952; September 7, 1952; June 10, 1962, MTBP, VII, 131–38, 140, 72, 141–76.
CHAPTER 14: BATTLING OVER EMILY’S PAPERS
1.Loaded Guns, 323.
2.Horan, “Dickinson Copyright Wars,” 95.
3.Loaded Guns, 347.
4.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 108.
5.Loaded Guns, 371.
6.R. M. Smith to George Whicher, April 27, 1944; George Whicher to MTB, May 1, 1944, MTBP, V, 83–303.
7.MTB to Gilbert Montague, n.d., NYPL, b1.
8.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 110.
9.Ibid., 109.
10.Confidential memo by Charles W. Cole, February 2, 1947, president’s office papers: Charles Cole, 1946–1961, Box 3, ACA.
11.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 109.
12.Archibald MacLeish to MTB, August 3, 1945, MTBP, 1–3, 49; MTB, “Journal,” November 11, 1961, MTBP, VII, 132–39–40.
13.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 109.
14.Loaded Guns, 379.
15.MTB, “Diary,” March 19, 1950, MTBP, VII, 131–30–38.
16.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 9.
17.William Jackson to Charles Cole, April 28, 1953, Cole papers, ACA.
18.Charles Cole to MTB, September 14, 1953; Charles Cole to Polly Longsworth, July 17, 1977, Cole papers, ACA.
19.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 112.
20.Ibid., 114.
21.Ibid., 116.
22.MTB, “Diary,” October 7, 1950, MTBP, VII, 139–68–71.
23.Ibid.; MTB, interview with Sutherland 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 116.
24.MTB, “Diary,” November 10, 1950, MTBP, VII, 139–68–71.
25.Ibid., December 31, 1950; MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 117.
26.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 118, 162.
27.MTB, “Diary,” January 20, 1952, MTBP, VII, 140–72–75; MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 4–11–12, 118, 162; Gilbert Montague to MTB, December 14, 1955; MTB to Gilbert Montague, December 17, 1955, NYPL, b1.
28.MTB, “Diary,” October 2, 1952; October 2, 1953, MTBP, VII, 140–72–75.
29.Ibid., January 23, 1952; MTB to Charles Cole, April 22, 1953, ACA; MTB, notes on conversation with Robert Frost, January 18, 1954, MTBP, I, 2–31.
30.MTB, “Diary,” January 23, 1953, MTB, VII, 140–72–75.
31.Ibid., November 29, 1952; MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 122.
32.MTB, “Notes, 1954–55,” n.d., MTBP, V, 93–373.
33.MTB, “Diary,” April 2, 1953, MTBP, VII, 140–72–75; MTB interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 122.
34.MTB, “Diary,” October 2, 1953, MTBP, VII, 140–72–75.
35.Charles Cole to MTB, April 28, 1953; MTB to Charles Cole, September 30, 1953, Cole papers, ACA.
36.Charles Cole to MTB, October 9, 1953, ACA.
37.Ibid.; MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 124; Agreement between MTB, Harvard University and Harper and Brothers, June 25, 1954, ACA.
38.Revelation; Home.
39.Jay Leyda to MTB, September 20,1954, MTBP, V, 84–236–242.
40.John Ciardi to MTB, May 13, 1955, MTBP, I, 2–24; Jay Leyda to MTB, September 20, 1954, MTBP, V, 8, 236–242.
41.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 155.
42.Ibid., 126, 130.
43.MTB to Charles Cole, March 9, 1956, ACA.
44.Charles Cole to MTB, April 18, 1960, ACA.
45.Gilbert Montague to MTB, May 16, 1956, ACA.
46.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–11–12, 156–57.
47.MTB to Charles Cole, 1957; Charles Cole to MTB, 1957; MTB to Charles Cole, November 12, 1959, ACA; MTB to Archibald MacLeish, December 21, 1959; Archibald MacLeish to MTB, October 30, 1959, MTBP, I, 3–49.
48.Charles Cole to Polly Longsworth, July 17, 1977, Cole papers, ACA.
49.Charles Cole to MTB, May 1959, ACA.
50.Charles Cole to Polly Longsworth, July 17, 1977, Cole papers, ACA.
51.Cole papers, ACA, “Bing
ham 1960.”
52.Author interview with Leslie Morris, Harvard University, February 23, 2015.
53.Calvin Plimpton to Nathan Pusey, December 15, 1966; Nathan Pusey to Calvin Plimpton, January 11, 1967, president’s office papers: Calvin Plimpton, 1960–1971, Box 44, ACA; Calvin Plimpton to MTB, April 21, 1967, MTB, I, 7–110–111.
54.MTB to Charles Cole, February 4, 1957, ACA.
55.MTB citation, Amherst College, May 1957, ACA.
56.MTB, “Journal,” November 13, 1960, MTBP, VII, 130–27.
57.Ibid.
58.MTB, “Diary,” November 10, 1950, MTBP, VII, 140–72–75.
CHAPTER 15: SEEKING CLOSURE AND MEANING
1.MTB, “Journal,” November 11, 1960, MTBP, VII, 130–27.
2.Gladys McKenzie, “Notes,” MTBP, VIII, 175–393.
3.MTB, “Reminiscences,” March 8, 1960, MTBP, II, 46–6–101, 3.
4.MTB, “Journal,” November 11, 1960, MTBP, VII, 130–27.
5.Author interview with Judith Schiff, 2013; August 13, 2015; MTB, “Journal,” November 20, 1963, MTBP, VII, 130–28.
6.MTB, “Notes,” April 20, 1967, MTBP, VIII, 174–371.
7.Gladys McKenzie to MTB, June 1968, MTBP, VII, 174–392; James Babb to MTB, October 14, 1960, MTBP, VII, 173–370.
8.MTB, interview with Sutherland, 1959, MTB, II, 46–11–12, 164–65.
9.MTB, “Diary,” June 13, 1963, MTBP, VII, 141, 79; July 14, 1966, MTBP, VII, 140–77.
10.MTB, “Reminiscences,” May 11, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–6–10.
11.MTB, “The Story of Hog Island,” MTBP, VI, 118–71–72.
12.Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1962), 69; Rachel Carson to MTB, August 14, 1960, MTBP, I, 2, 23. For additional information about Mabel’s and Millicent’s environmental impulses and quest to save Hog Island, see Julie Dobrow, “Mabel Loomis Todd: The Civic Impulses and Civic Engagement of an Accidental Activist,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts 45, no. 2 (June 2017); Julie Dobrow, “Early 20th Century ‘Tree Huggers’: Mabel Loomis Todd, Millicent Todd Bingham and the Development of Their Conservation Impulses,” http://www.juliedobrow.com/hog-island-booklet/.
13.MTB, “Autobiographical Notes,” MTBP, II, 47–18.
14.Mabel Loomis Todd, Forest ceremony dedication pamphlet, May 21, 1961, MTBP, VI, 124–153.
15.MTB, “Toward Conservation: An Island Leads the Way,” 1937, MTBP, VI, 118–75.
16.MTB, “Reminiscences,” May 11, 1959, MTBP, II, 46–6–10.