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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life | 9 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson | 7 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI : the crowning years (search)
XVI: the crowning years
In 1889, Colonel Higginson began what proved to be a four years task of editing, with Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd of Amherst, Emily Dickinson's poems and letters.
Of this work he wrote Mrs. Todd:—
I can't tell you how much I am enjoying the poems.
There are many new to me which take my breath away.Mrs. Todd:—
I can't tell you how much I am enjoying the poems.
There are many new to me which take my breath away. A year later he wrote to her:—
You are the only person who can feel as I do about this extraordinary thing we have done in recording this rare genius.
I feel as if we had climbed to a cloud, pulled it away, and revealed a new star behind it . . . . Such things as I find in her letters!
The Madonnas I see are those that pas will not only yield the final news of Emily Dickinson, but take from me a living companionship I shall miss. After the volume of letters was published, of which Mrs. Todd was the principal editor, Colonel Higginson wrote to her November 29, 1894:—
Emily has arrived.
They sent her to Sever's book store where I rarely go and
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