White Heat Part 21

"the most eminent poetess in the world": TWH, "Sappho," p. 83.

"unapproached among women": TWH, "Sappho," p. 86.

"Could you not come without the Lecture": ED to TWH, [October 1870], Letters, Letters, 2:482. This letter exists in pencil draft only at Amherst; there is no copy among TWH's papers at BPL. We therefore do not know if it was sent to Higginson, though I suspect it was. 2:482. This letter exists in pencil draft only at Amherst; there is no copy among TWH's papers at BPL. We therefore do not know if it was sent to Higginson, though I suspect it was.

"When I hoped I feared-": Fr 594; the poem had evidently been composed five years earlier.

"Remembrance has a Rear and Front": Fr 1234.

"I remember your coming": ED to TWH, September 26, 1870, Letters, Letters, 2:47980. 2:47980.

"Trust adjusts her 'Peradventure'-": Fr 1177.

"You told me Mrs Lowell was Mr Lowell's 'inspiration'": ED to TWH, [October 1870], Letters Letters 2:481. 2:481.

no wonder her brother: MLT, journal, October 18, 1891, Yale.

"The Riddle that we guess": Fr 1180A, in ED to TWH, [October 1870], Letters, Letters, 2:480. 2:480.

"You ask great questions accidentally": ED to TWH, September 26, 1870, Letters, Letters, 2:479. 2:479.

"Too happy Time dissolves itself": Fr 1182.

"I was refreshed by your strong Letter": ED to TWH, [October 1870], Letters, Letters, 2:481. 2:481.

"Thank you for Greatness": ED to TWH, [October 1870], Letters, Letters, 2:481. 2:481.

"You place the truth in opposite-": ED to TWH, [October 1870], Letters, Letters, 2:481. 2:481.

"Step lightly on this narrow Spot-": Fr 1227.

if it belonged to her: ED to TWH, June 7, 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:408. 2:408.

"I thank these Kinsmen of the Shelf-": Fr 512.

"Stronger than any written": ED to TWH, November 1871, Letters, Letters, 2:491. 2:491.

"I thought I spoke to you of the shadow": ED to TWH, [October 1870], Letters, Letters, 2:481. 2:481.

"Amherst must be a nest nest of poetesses" "letters from Emily d.i.c.kinson": TWH, quoted in Lydia B. Torrey to Emily Fowler Ford, November 16, 1872, NYPL. of poetesses" "letters from Emily d.i.c.kinson": TWH, quoted in Lydia B. Torrey to Emily Fowler Ford, November 16, 1872, NYPL.

"I do think Amherst girls turn out (excuse me-) horridly!": HHJ to Henry Root, March 1854, Colorado.

"if I say a shorter time it will be longer": TWH, notes, [August 16, 17, 1870], BPL.

"Her friendships with men had the frankness": TWH, "Mrs. Helen Jackson (H. H.)," p. 256.

"the one great duty": HHJ, Mercy Philbrick's Choice, Mercy Philbrick's Choice, p. 71. p. 71.

"knocks like a baby at the door": HHJ to Kate Field, March 7, 1866, BPL.

"I shall never write a sentence": Contemp., Contemp., p. 156. p. 156.

He praised her novels: See Contemp., Contemp., p. 163. p. 163.

"perfection in every sentence": TWH, "Charlotte Prince Hawes," Radical, Radical, January 1867, p. 283. January 1867, p. 283.

"In almost any town in New England": TWH, "The Higher Education of Woman: A Paper Read before the Social Science Convention, May 1, 1873," in Journal of Social Science Journal of Social Science (1873): 38. (1873): 38.

Everyone walks through the door: See Gornick, The Solitude of Self, The Solitude of Self, for a particularly illuminating a.n.a.lysis of the radical and liberal feminism created at this juncture. for a particularly illuminating a.n.a.lysis of the radical and liberal feminism created at this juncture.

"Without deprecating the value": Circular letter signed by Lucy Stone, Caroline M. Severance, Julia Ward Howe, TWH, and George H. Vibbert, August 6, 1869, Stowe Center.

"No! my dear friend": Elizabeth Cady Stanton to TWH, June 13, 1868, BPL.

"The world has always more respect": TWH to Harriet Beecher Stowe, October 11, 1868, Stowe Center.

"before the war he never missed a good fight": Dear Preceptor, Dear Preceptor, p. 248. p. 248.

"If the conservatives think": TWH, quoted in Stanton, Anthony, and Gage, History of Woman Suffrage, History of Woman Suffrage, 2:803. 2:803.

an "Intellectual History of Women"-"my magnum opus magnum opus": TWH, TWH, p. 284. p. 284.

"If there is only one woman in the nation": TWH, Common Sense about Women Common Sense about Women, pp. 397398. This volume collects most of Higginson's writings from The Woman's Journal. The Woman's Journal. 189 "The yearning for a literary career" "reveal such intellectual ardor": TWH, 189 "The yearning for a literary career" "reveal such intellectual ardor": TWH, Common Sense about Women, Common Sense about Women, pp. 259260. pp. 259260.

"I am happy you have the Travel" "Could you come again": ED to TWH, [1872], Letters, Letters, 2:500. 2:500.

"To disappear enhances-The Man that runs away": Fr 1239C.

"He preached opon 'Breadth' till it argued him narrow-": Fr 1266.

"The Sea said 'Come' to the Brook-": Fr 1275.

"Thank you for the 'Lesson'": ED to TWH, [late 1872], Letters, Letters, 2:501. 2:501.

"Could you teach me now?" or "Will you instruct me then no more?": ED to TWH, [1873], Letters, Letters, 2:511. These are from two different letters. 2:511. These are from two different letters.

"Longing is like the Seed": Fr 1298A.

"Dominion lasts until obtained-": Fr 1299.

"The Wind begun to knead the Gra.s.s-/ As Women do a Dough-": 796A; "The Wind begun to rock the Gra.s.s / With threatening tunes and low-": Fr 796D.

"Your poem about the storm is fine": TWH to ED, December 31, 1873, Houghton.

"I don't dare die": MCH, quoted in Elliott, This Was My Newport, This Was My Newport, p. 84. p. 84.

"particularly absurd in E. D.'s case": MCH quoted in TWH to AH, December 9, 1873, Houghton.

"I saw my eccentric poetess" "How long are you going to stay": TWH to AH, December 9, 1873, Houghton.

"& especially the time spent with you": TWH to ED, December 31, 1873, Houghton.

"Thank you, dear friend, for my 'New Year'": ED to TWH, [January 1874], Letters, Letters, 2:518. 2:518.

"When the paths that we have personally traversed": TWH, Oldport Days Oldport Days (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1873), p. 266. (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1873), p. 266.

"I have fineness": TWH, journal, February 20, 1869, Houghton.

"My gentility is chronic": TWH to unknown recipient, December 26, 1873, Houghton.

"I wish you could see some field lilies": TWH to ED, December 31, 1873, Houghton.

She replied to Higginson: For an account of the revisions, see Fr, 3:11351139.

"Because that you are going": Fr 1314.

CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE REALM OF YOU "'well enough'": Walter Dean Howells, quoted in TWH to William Dean Howells, September 30, 1871, Houghton.

"I hate to write in anything but the Atlantic": TWH to LH and AH, [1871], Houghton. The piece in question is "A Day of Scottish Games," published in the January 1872 issue of Scribner's Monthly Scribner's Monthly (pp. 329336). (pp. 329336).

Henry Adams: See [Adams], "Frothingham's Transcendentalism," p. 470.

"they rely for success": TWH, "Literature as an Art," p. 747.

"everything which does not tend to money": Malbone, Malbone, p. 98. p. 98.

"For all young Fancy's": See Afternoon Landscape, Afternoon Landscape, p. 88. p. 88.

"In spite of my fine physique": TWH, journal, April 18, 1873, Houghton.

"The walls seem only to draw closer": TWH, journal, September 25, 1875, Houghton.

"My life indeed has disappointed me": TWH, journal, December 22, 1876, Houghton.

"The truth is...that the child does not trouble himself": TWH, "Childhood's Fancies," Scribner's Monthly, Scribner's Monthly, January 1876, p. 362. January 1876, p. 362.

Never a Republican: See EdD to WAD, February 18, 1874, quoted in Home, Home, p. 451. p. 451.

His head felt light: For the account of d.i.c.kinson's death, see MLT to TWH, July 9, 1891, Yale, p. 224.

"We were all lost, though I didn't know how": ED to Louise and Frances Norcross, [summer 1874], Letters, Letters, 2:526. 2:526.

"There, father, I never dared do that while you were living": WAD, quoted in Mary Lee Hall to MTB, August 5, 1933, Yale.

"he seemed peculiarly pleased": ED to TWH, [July 1874], Letters, Letters, 2:528. 2:528.

"Mr. Bowles was with us": ED to TWH, [July 1874], Letters, Letters, 2:528. 2:528.

The shops of Amherst had closed: Information about the funeral is from the Springfield Republican, Springfield Republican, June 20, 1874, and MDB, June 20, 1874, and MDB, Emily d.i.c.kinson Face to Face, Emily d.i.c.kinson Face to Face, p. 13. p. 13.

"Miss Vinnie told me": Mary Lee Hall to MTB, December 29, 1939, Yale.

"His Heart was pure and terrible": ED to TWH, [July 1874], Letters, Letters, 2:528. 2:528.

"Though it is many nights": ED to Louise and Frances Norcross, [summer 1874], Letters, Letters, 2:526. 2:526.

"without any body": ED to Louise and Frances Norcross, [August 1876], Letters, Letters, 2:559. 2:559.

"Home is so far from Home": ED to TWH, July 1875, Letters, Letters, 2:542. 2:542.

"I have wished for you" "Your beautiful Hymn": ED to TWH, [July 1874], Letters, Letters, 2:528. 2:528.

the protofeminist speaker: As Mary Loeffelholz points out in her fine article "d.i.c.kinson's 'Decoration,'" the poem was reprinted in The Woman's Journal The Woman's Journal just after it appeared in just after it appeared in Scribner's Monthly. Scribner's Monthly. She also conjectures the ident.i.ty of the woman as Margaret Elliott Hazard. She also conjectures the ident.i.ty of the woman as Margaret Elliott Hazard.

"I thought that being a Poem one's self": ED to TWH, [May 1874], Letters, Letters, 2:525. 2:525.

And when "Decoration" appeared in Scribner's Monthly Scribner's Monthly: See TWH, "Decoration," p. 234.

"It has a.s.sisted that Pause of s.p.a.ce": ED to TWH, July 1874, Letters, Letters, 2:528. 2:528.

"The broadest words": ED to TWH, [late May 1874], Letters, Letters, 2:525. 2:525.

"had twice seen you": ED to TWH, January 1876, Letters, Letters, 2:547. 2:547.

"Mother was paralyzed Tuesday": ED to TWH, [mid-June 1875], Letters, Letters, 2:542. 2:542.

"I am glad": ED to TWH, [July 1875], Letters, Letters, 2:542. 2:542.

"Knowing that his fraternal love towards me": ED, quoted in YH, YH, 2:237. 2:237.

Emily named Vinnie: See YH, YH, 2:261. 2:261.

"weird & strange power": TWH to AH, November 30, 1875, Houghton.

"I have a little ma.n.u.script volume": HHJ to ED, March 20, 1876, Houghton.

"asked me for my Mind": ED to TWH, April 25, 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:405. 2:405.

"My Brother and Sisters would love to see you": ED to TWH, [May 1874], Letters, Letters, 2:525. 2:525.

"The last of Summer is Delight-": Fr 1380; "The Heart is the Capital of the Mind": Fr 1381C; "The Mind lives on the Heart": Fr 1384; "The Rat is the concisest Tenant": Fr 1369; "'Faithful to the end' amended": Fr 1386.

or, in an earlier version, "be lean": "The Mind lives on the Heart": Fr 1384A.

"the writer, when he adopts a high aim": TWH, "Literature as an Art," p. 753.

"I often go Home in thought to you": ED to TWH, [February 1876], Letters, Letters, 2:548. 2:548.