"We play at Paste-": Fr 282A. She was also slyly alluding, it seems, to his "Gymnastics" essay: "Practise...thoroughly and patiently, and you will in time attain evolutions more complicated, and, if you wish, more perilous." See TWH, "Gymnastics," p. 292.

"Would you have time to be the 'friend'": ED to TWH, June 7, 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:409. 2:409.

"As if I asked a common Alms": Fr 14.

"But, will you be my Preceptor": ED to TWH, June 7, 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:409. 2:409.

"the Dreamer & worker-": TWH, "Dreamer and Worker" notebook, Houghton.

"I fancy that in some other realm": TWH, "Letter to a Young Contributor," pp. 410411.

"cross her Father's ground": ED to TWH, June 1869, Letters, Letters, 2:460. 2:460.

"The Soul selects her own Society-": Fr 409.

"The Truth must dazzle gradually-": Fr 1263.

"Of our greatest acts": ED to TWH, [June 1869], Letters, Letters, 2:460. 2:460.

"Thank Heaven!": MLT, diary, March 3, 1891, Yale. Mabel Loomis Todd kept both diaries and journals; the former contain topical remarks written on or close to the date of entry. The journals consist of longer, more reflective pa.s.sages that, in some cases, are written at some time distant from the dates or events described.

"Never gave them to me": See AB, AB, p. 152n. p. 152n.

CHAPTER TWO: THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON: WITHOUT A LITTLE CRACK SOMEWHERE "Don't you think it rather a pity": TWH, "The Sunny Side of the Transcendental Era," p. 6.

"It would seem as strange to another generation": TWH to LSH, July 10, 1859, Houghton.

Not surprisingly, in later years: See "Epistle to the Reader," in John Hale, A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft (1702), quoted in Burr, (1702), quoted in Burr, Narratives of New England Witchcraft Cases, Narratives of New England Witchcraft Cases, p. 402. p. 402.

"the star that gilds": LSH, quoted in TWH, TWH, p. 56. p. 56.

"half dead": LSH to TWH, December 27, 1861, Houghton.

"I think sometimes he will offer his wife and children": LSH, diary, n.d., Houghton.

"his hospitality was inconveniently unbounded": TWH, "The Woman Who Most Influenced Me," p. 8.

The deficit mounted: Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard, Three Centuries of Harvard, pp. 220221; see also pp. 220221; see also Strange Enthusiasm, Strange Enthusiasm, p. 13. p. 13.

"In works of Love": TWH, TWH, p. 2. p. 2.

"Born in the college, bred to it": CY, CY, p. 39. p. 39.

"I rarely write": TWH, "How I Was Educated," Forum, Forum, April 1886, p. 178. April 1886, p. 178.

"splendid talents but no application": TWH, journal, April 30, 1841, Houghton.

"I feel overflowing with mental energies": TWH, TWH, p. 52. p. 52.

"If I have any genius": TWH to LSH, January 31, 1843, Houghton.

"all the argument": Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles," in Essays and Poems, Essays and Poems, p. 409. p. 409.

"What I would not give to know": TWH, TWH, p. 64. p. 64.

"They have truth and earnestness": Emerson, quoted in Dear Preceptor, Dear Preceptor, p. 45. p. 45.

"I did not know exactly what I wished to study": CY, CY, p. 91. p. 91.

"I cannot live alone": See TWH, TWH, p. 63. p. 63.

"Whatever be her faults of manner": TWH, quoted in Dear Preceptor, Dear Preceptor, p. 41. p. 41.

"Mrs. Higginson is very queer": Quoted in Strange Enthusiasm, Strange Enthusiasm, p. 152. p. 152.

his sister Anna: See W&M, W&M, p. 88. p. 88.

"I don't care about outside show": TWH to Mary Channing, July 28, [1844], Houghton.

"G.o.d's fanatic": TWH, quoted in Renehan, The Secret Six, The Secret Six, p. 4. p. 4.

"I heard that he was 'poison'": ED to Mary Bowles, [late 1859], Letters, Letters, 2:358. 2:358.

as one of his biographers observes: Dear Preceptor, Dear Preceptor, p. 59. p. 59.

"not infallible but invaluable": TWH, "The Sympathy of Religions" (originally written 18541855), Radical, Radical, February 1871, p. 1. February 1871, p. 1.

"just and even fellowship, or none": Emerson, "The Transcendentalist," in Essays and Poems, Essays and Poems, p. 200. p. 200.

"The career of man has grown large": TWH, "The Character of Buddha," Index, Index, March 16, 1872, p. 83. March 16, 1872, p. 83.

"Any man with some Yes in him": TWH to LSH, [November 1844], Houghton.

"In Cambridge we are in peace": TWH, "Other Days and Ways in Cambridge and Boston," typed ms., February 3, 1911, AAS.

"I crave action": TWH, TWH, p. 69. p. 69.

"Free breath is good": TWH, "The Woman Who Most Influenced Me," p. 8.

"I have repented of many things": TWH, TWH, p. 65. p. 65.

"Times change / and duties with them": TWH, "Tyrtaeus," Harbinger, Harbinger, November 1, 1845, p. 332. November 1, 1845, p. 332.

"a higher element": TWH to MCH, September 4, 1846, Houghton.

"The land our fathers left to us": TWH, "National Anti-Slavery Hymn," Liberator, Liberator, July 17, 1846, p. 116. July 17, 1846, p. 116.

"The idea of poetic genius is now utterly foreign to me," TWH, TWH, pp. 6465. pp. 6465.

"He has abandoned much": TWH, application for readmission to Harvard Divinity School, September 19, 1846, Houghton.

"Setting out, as I do": TWH, TWH, pp. 6768. pp. 6768.

"There are times and places": TWH, quoted in Strange Enthusiasm, Strange Enthusiasm, p. 89. p. 89.

"Mr. Higginson was like a great archangel": Harriet Prescott Spofford, quoted in TWH, TWH, pp. 9596. pp. 9596.

"It will hurt my popularity in Newburyport": TWH, TWH, p. 88. p. 88.

"They are so much more dependent on me": TWH to LSH, September 19, 1848, Houghton.

"My position as an Abolitionist": TWH to LSH, September 6, 1849, Houghton.

"I think I would have come to the same thing": TWH to Mrs. Southwell, July 21, 1898, AAS.

"There are always men": TWH, quoted in Strange Enthusiasm, Strange Enthusiasm, p. 104. p. 104.

"marched like an army without banners": TWH, "Two Antislavery Leaders," p. 143.

"on behalf of everything, almost": Henry James, "American Letter," p. 678.

"Remember that to us": TWH, TWH, p. 142. p. 142.

"a.s.sent-and you are sane-": Fr 620.

"Without a little crack somewhere": "The Eccentricities of Reformers," in Contemp., Contemp., p. 328. p. 328.

"I hope, however, that there is less real danger": "might damage the cause": TWH, letter to the Liberator, Liberator, October 10, 1851, p. 163. October 10, 1851, p. 163.

"If Maria Mitch.e.l.l can discover comets": Wishes, Wishes, p. 9. p. 9.

A woman "must be a slave or an equal": Wishes, Wishes, p. 25. p. 25.

"I, too, wish to save the dinner": Wishes, Wishes, p. 23. p. 23.

"A woman such as you would make": "Rights and Wrongs of Women," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, June 1854, p. 76. June 1854, p. 76.

"What sort of philosophy is that": TWH, "Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?" p. 145.

"Nothing makes me more indignant": TWH to Isabelle B. Hooker, February 19, 1859, Stowe Center.

CHAPTER THREE: EMILY d.i.c.kINSON: IF I LIVE, I WILL GO TO AMHERST "Biography first convinces us": ED to TWH, February 1885, Letters, Letters, 2:864. 2:864.

"It pa.s.ses and we stay-": Fr 962.

the "only Kangaroo among the Beauty" "when I state myself": ED to TWH, July 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:412. 2:412.

a leading citizen of "unflagging zeal": WAD, "Samuel Fowler d.i.c.kinson," 1889, quoted in Sewall, p. 41.

a new "priest factory": Le Duc, Piety and Intellect at Amherst College, Piety and Intellect at Amherst College, p. 5. p. 5.

"they have compleated the College": Lucretia d.i.c.kinson to EdD, December 5, 1820, Houghton.

"My life," he sternly warned: EdD to END, June 4, 1826, Houghton.

"un.o.btrusive faculties": ED to WAD, February 18, 1852, Letters, Letters, 1:180. 1:180.

"There is a vast field": EdD to END, May 15, 1826, quoted in Pollak, A Poet's Parents, A Poet's Parents, pp. 1516. pp. 1516.

"A man's success": EdD to END, October 22, 1826, quoted in Pollak, A Poet's Parents, A Poet's Parents, p. 49. p. 49.

"Your proposals are what I would wish": END to EdD, August 8, 1826, quoted in Pollak, A Poet's Parents, A Poet's Parents, p. 37. p. 37.

"That rule was not made for me": EdD, quoted in YH, YH, 1:256. 1:256.

"Fathers real life and mine": ED to WAD, December 15, 1851, Letters, Letters, 1:161. 1:161.

An oft-repeated anecdote: See Home, Home, p. 112. p. 112.

"Father was very severe to me": ED to WAD, April 2, 1853, Letters, Letters, 1:237. 1:237.

"There must have lurked in her expressive face" Jenkins p.r.o.nounced her "sound": Jenkins, Emily d.i.c.kinson, Emily d.i.c.kinson, p. 82. p. 82.

"They do not need a severe course": EdD, draft of article published in the New-England Inquirer, New-England Inquirer, January 5, 1827, Houghton. January 5, 1827, Houghton.

"How does it affect us": EdD, draft of article published in the New- England Inquirer, New- England Inquirer, February 23, 1827, Houghton. February 23, 1827, Houghton.

"We are warranted in presuming": EdD to END, August 3, 1826, quoted in Pollak, A Poet's Parents, A Poet's Parents, p. 35. p. 35.

"Let them bend all their energies": EdD, draft of article published in the New-England Inquirer, New-England Inquirer, April 20, 1827, Houghton. April 20, 1827, Houghton.

"She dont appear at all as she does at home": Lavinia Norcross, quoted in YH, YH, 1:2122. 1:2122.

"They shut me up in Prose-": Fr 445.

"Bliss is the sceptre of the child": Fr 1583.

"I so love to be a child": ED to Abiah Root, [1850], Letters, Letters, 1:104. 1:104.

"I wish we were children now": ED to WAD, April 12, 1853, Letters, Letters, 1:241. 1:241.

"Two things I have lost with Childhood-": ED, n.d., misc. fragments, Letters, Letters, 3:928. 3:928.

"The Things that never can come back, are several-": Fr 1564.

As an adult, she played games: See Jenkins, Emily d.i.c.kinson, Emily d.i.c.kinson, p. 40. p. 40.

"The realization of our vivid fancy": See MDB, preface to The Single Hound, The Single Hound, by ED, pp. xxi. by ED, pp. xxi.