Emily Dickinson's Correspondences
Correspondence with Susan Dickinson

H 289

JP 157

FP 229

early 1860s

ink

watermark/embossment: Q, queen profile, embossed

20 x 13 cm.

folded in thirds


Poems (1891), 84, titled "Melodies Unheard." "Sue" on verso, as is "P," and "X" in pencil. Words are much closer together than in other documents of this period, suggesting that her spatial arrangements are not happenstance, but deliberate.

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