MANUSCRIPT: destroyed.

PUBLICATION: L (1894) 260-261; LL 272, in part; L (1931) 239, and dated: May 1870.

In Letters (1894) and later, the final sentences are separated as above from the main text. They may or may not be a part of this letter. It is stated that they enclosed a pressed insect. ED is thinking of May as the anniversary month when she stayed in Cambridge, in 1864 and 1865, with the Norcrosses.