letters from dickinson to sarah tuckerman


Thomas Johnson's Note on Letter 883

MANUSCRIPT: AC. Pencil. Mrs. Tuckerman dated it: February 1884.

PUBLICATION: L (1894) 389; LL 370; L (1931) 378-379.

The first quotation is from Matthew 7.16 (see letter no. 1033). The second reconstructs Isaiah 6.2: "Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly."


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