MANUSCRIPT: HCL (L 46). Pencil.

PUBLICATION: FN 126.

This was probably sent to the Jenkinses before they left Amherst for Pittsfield in May. It evidently enclosed a poem, almost certainly the following (HCL), said by MacGregor Jenkins (in FN) to have been sent to his mother at the time of departure.

They might not need me - yet they might.
I'll let my Heart be just in sight -
A smile so small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity -