These manuscripts contain mutilations noted in parentheses; erasures of names and words, sections of manuscript cut away, and passages inked over (by hands other than Emily's).

• "The Supper / was delicate" (H B66, JL 1025) (erasures, cut away)
  
  
• "One Sister Have I in the House" (A 80-8, A 80-9, A 69, OMC 30, JP 14) (inked over)
  
  
• "Dear Austin - / Father says he came down upon / you so unexpectedly" (A 572, JL 57) (erasures, lined through)
  
  
• "I will write while they've gone to meeting" (A 587, JL 80) (erasures, lined through, cut away)
  
  
• "Dear Austin - / How much I miss you -" (A 596, JL 109) (erasures)
  
  
• "Do you want to hear from me, / Austin -" (A 608, JL 128) (erasures)
  
  
• "It's quite a comfort, Austin, to hear / that you're alive" (A 617, JL 144)(erasures)
  
  
  

Susan's name was removed from the versos of the following manuscripts.

• "The face I carry with / me - last -" (A 80-7, OMC 64, JP 336)
  
  
• "Excuse me Dollie - / The Love a Child can / show - below" (A 635, OMC 92, JP 673)
  
  
• "Her breast is fit for pearls," (A 651, OMC 50, JP 84)
  
  
• "As watchers hang upon the East," (A 653, OMC 51, JP 121)
  
  
• "These are the days when Birds come back -" (A 654, OMC 25, JP 130)
  
  
• "Besides the Autumn poets sing" (A 655, OMC 26, JP 131)
  
  
• "A slash of Blue - / A sweep of Gray" (A 663, OMC 23, JP 204)
  
  
• "The soul unto itself" (A 690, OMC 86, JP 683)
  
  
  

The following are bibliographic erasures. Though Sue's name is present on the verso of A 634, Johnson's omits noting this in his edition; and Franklin attributes the "missing leaf" and inking over of A 432 to Emily herself rather than exploring other possibilities.

• "[Now I knew I lost her]... Not who Toils / for Freedom" (A 432)
  
  
• "Pigmy seraphs - gone astray -" (A 634, OMC 27, JP 138)