"I had more [mail] about 'April Days'": TWH, TWH, pp. 157158. pp. 157158.

"I do not find that my facility grows so fast as my fastidiousness": TWH, TWH, p. 158. p. 158.

"The more bent any man is upon action": TWH, "My Out-Door Study," p. 303.

"We talk": TWH, "My Out-Door Study," p. 304.

"My size felt small-": ED to TWH, April 25, 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:405. 2:405.

CHAPTER SIX: NATURE IS A HAUNTED HOUSE "I enclose my name-," ED to TWH, April 15, 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:403. 2:403.

"Is it Intellect that the Patriot means": ED to TWH, [late May 1874], Letters, Letters, 2:525. 2:525.

even if "you smile at me": ED to TWH, [July 1862], Letters, Letters, 2:412. 2:412.

"I saw no Way-": Fr 633.

"To learn the Transport by the Pain-": Fr 178.

"Perhaps you laugh at me!": ED to Elizabeth and Josiah Holland, [summer 1862], Letters, Letters, 2:413. 2:413.

"I dwell in Possibility-": Fr 466.

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers-": Fr 314; "I'm n.o.body! Who are you?": Fr 260; "I like to see it lap the Miles-": Fr 383.

"Each Life converges to some Centre-": Fr 724.

"He put the Belt around my life-": Fr 330; "The Soul has Bandaged moments-": Fr 360; "The Zeros taught Us-Phosphorus-": Fr 284; "Nature-sometimes sears a Sapling-": Fr 457; "Remorse-is Memory-awake-": Fr 781; "Doom is the House without the Door-": Fr 710; "I had been hungry, all the Years-": Fr 439; "One need not be a Chamber-to be Haunted-": Fr 407; "Crisis is a Hair": Fr 1067.

"I reason, Earth is short-": Fr 403.

"Inebriate of air-": In Fr 207.

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes-": Fr 372; "There's a certain Slant of light": Fr 320; "It was not Death, for I stood up": Fr 355.

"G.o.d is a distant-stately Lover-": Fr 615.

"I've known her-from an ample nation-": Fr 409.

"I felt a Cleaving in my Mind-": Fr 867.

"Breaking in bright Orthography": In Fr 333.

"The Martyr Poets-did not tell-": Fr 665.

"'We take no note of Time'": ED to Abiah Root, September 8, 1846, Letters, Letters, 1:37. 1:37.

"I often part with things I fancy I have loved": ED to Susan Gilbert, [1854], Letters, Letters, 1:305306. 1:305306.

"Of nearness to her sundered Things" "Bright Knots of Apparitions": Fr 337.

"A loss of something ever felt I-": Fr 1072.

"A Light exists in Spring": Fr 962.

"Dear March-Come in-": Fr 1320.

"The nearest Dream recedes-unrealized-": Fr 304.

"Sorrow seems more general": ED to Louise and Frances Norcross, [December 1862; misdated in Johnson], Letters, Letters, 2:436. 2:436.

"They dropped like Flakes-": Fr 545.

He had murmured, "My G.o.d": ED to Louise and Frances Norcross, [March 1862], Letters, Letters, 2:397398. 2:397398.

"n.o.body here could look on Frazar-": ED to Louise and Frances Norcross, [late March 1862], Letters, Letters, 2:398. 2:398.

"says-his Brain keeps saying": ED to Samuel Bowles, [March 1862], Letters, Letters, 2:399. 2:399.

"This is the Hour of Lead-": In Fr 372. This famous poem ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-") was written around this time (springfall 1862).

"there is no remoteness of life and thought": Hawthorne, "Chiefly about War-Matters," p. 43.

"General Wolfe, on the eve of battle": TWH, "Letter to a Young Contributor," p. 409.

"I'm sorry for the Dead-Today-": Fr 582.

"If the anguish of others helped with one's own": ED to Louise and Frances Norcross, [December 1862; misdated in Johnson], Letters, Letters, 2:436. 2:436.

"I noticed that Robert Browning": ED to Louise and Frances Norcross, [December 1862; misdated in Johnson], Letters, Letters, 2:436. 2:436.

"It dont sound so terrible-quite-as it did-": Fr 384 "We-tell a Hurt-to cool it-": In Fr 548.

"An actual suffering strengthens": In Fr 861. ED sent the second stanza of this poem to TWH in 1866: "Time is a test of trouble / But not a remedy-/ If such it prove-it prove too / There was no malady" (Fr 861B).

"Of all the Sounds despatched abroad": Fr 334B.

"The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy": TWH, "Emily d.i.c.kinson's Letters," p. 445.

"A Bird, came down the Walk-": Fr 359.

"I could well wish she were a native of Ma.s.sachusetts": Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in Hall, The Story of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," The Story of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," p. 103. p. 103.

His first volume..., went through three printings: See Roch.e.l.le Gurstein, "The Importance of Being Earnest," pp. 4045.

"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain": Fr 340.

Spofford's short story "Circ.u.mstance": See [SGD], "Harriet Prescott's Early Work," p. 19, and St. Armand, Emily d.i.c.kinson and Her Culture, Emily d.i.c.kinson and Her Culture, p. 173. p. 173.

"Now all the swamps are flushed with dower": Harriet Spofford, "Pomegranate-Flowers," p. 575. Spofford's fiction impressed d.i.c.kinson, who asked Sue to send her more.

"It is no discredit to Walt Whitman": TWH, "Literature as an Art," p. 753.

"to my gymnasium-trained eye": CY, CY, pp. 230231. pp. 230231.

"We all looked to him": TWH, quoted in Nelson and Price, "Debating Manliness," p. 497.

Higginson thus resented Drum-Taps: Drum-Taps: See TWH, "Literature as an Art," p. 753. See TWH, "Literature as an Art," p. 753.

"Could you tell me how to grow-": ED to TWH, April 25, 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:404. 2:404.

"I had rather wince, than die": ED to TWH, July 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:412. 2:412.

"I thanked you for your justice": ED to TWH, June 7, 1862, Letters, Letters, 2:408. 2:408.

"Your Riches, taught me, poverty-": Fr 418B. Higginson recalls receiving this poem in her second letter (postmarked April 25, 1862) although Franklin alleges the poem, along with "Success-is counted sweetest," was enclosed with the letter she sent to him in July 1862.

she may have composed in memory of Benjamin Newton: See Whicher, This Was a Poet, This Was a Poet, p. 92. p. 92.

"Success-is counted sweetest": Fr 112D.

"You say 'Beyond your knowledge'" "I think you called me 'Wayward'": ED to TWH, [August 1862], Letters, Letters, 2:414415. 2:414415.

"Of Tribulation-these are They": see Fr 328, sent with a letter [of July 1862], Letters, Letters, 2:411412. 2:411412.

"A Bird, came down the Walk-": Fr 359; "Before I got my eye put out-": Fr 336B; "I cannot dance opon my Toes-": Fr 381A; "Dare you see a Soul at the 'White Heat'?": Fr 401C.

"Are these more orderly?": ED to TWH, [August 1862], Letters, Letters, 2:414. 2:414.

"When I try to organize-my little Force explodes": ED to TWH, [August 1862], Letters, Letters, 2:414. 2:414.

"You told me in one letter": ED to TWH, [August 1862], Letters, Letters, 2:415. 2:415.

"A Letter always feels to me like immortality": ED to TWH, [June 1869], Letters, Letters, 2:460. 2:460.

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

"There's a certain Slant of light": Fr 320.

"Sweet hours have perished here": Fr 1785.

"an article upon wildflowers": Springfield Republican, Springfield Republican, November 1862. November 1862.

"If, in the simple process of writing": TWH, "Procession of the Flowers," p. 657.

"Nature is a Haunted House-": ED to TWH, n.d., Letters, Letters, 2:554. 2:554.

"I trust the 'Procession of Flowers' was not a premonition": ED to TWH, February 1863, Letters, Letters, 2:424. 2:424.

CHAPTER SEVEN: INTENSELY HUMAN "must put the slavery question in a wholly new aspect" "I have never written any political article there before": TWH to LSH, May 30, 1861, Houghton.

"Slavery is the root of the rebellion": TWH, "The Ordeal by Battle," p. 94.

"the far greater horrors of its suppression": TWH, "Nat Turner's Insurrection," p. 179.

"she was a woman, she was a slave": TWH, "Nat Turner's Insurrection," p. 181.

"My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-": Fr 764; see Howe, My Emily d.i.c.kinson, My Emily d.i.c.kinson, p. 129. p. 129.

"but for this reverse we never should have the law of Congress": L&J, L&J, p. 156. p. 156.

"No prominent anti-slavery man": TWH to LSH, November 1, 1861, Houghton.

"Each Life converges to some Centre-": Fr 724.

"What I could write I have written": CY, CY, pp. 248249. TWH, Field Book, August 31, 1862, Houghton. pp. 248249. TWH, Field Book, August 31, 1862, Houghton.

"as if one had learned to swim in air": CY, CY, pp. 248249. pp. 248249.

"In each set...there are mingled": TWH to LSH, October 13, 1862, Houghton.

a "man of somewhat fluid gender identifications": Nelson and Price, "Debating Manliness," p. 504.

"slender & graceful, dark with raven eyes & hair": TWH to LSH, September 20, 1845, Houghton.

"All that my natural fastidiousness and cautious reserve": TWH, TWH, p. 126. p. 126.

"There was a young curate of Worcester": See CY, CY, p. 251. p. 251.

"The government sent agents down here": Charles Francis Adams Jr., April 6, 1862, quoted in Ford, A Cycle of Adams Letters, A Cycle of Adams Letters, p. 128. p. 128.

"overlook means in his zeal for ends": November 27, 1862, Civil War Journal, Civil War Journal, p. 52. All quotations, unless noted, have been checked against Higginson's Civil War journal at Houghton Library and published in TWH, p. 52. All quotations, unless noted, have been checked against Higginson's Civil War journal at Houghton Library and published in TWH, The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The journal often contains the same phrasing as Higginson's letters to his wife and mother. The journal often contains the same phrasing as Higginson's letters to his wife and mother.

Though Saxton was to report to Hunter: For a fuller discussion of the history of the black soldier in the Union army, see Cornish, The Sable Arm, The Sable Arm, chapters 2 and 5; see also TWH, "The First Black Regiment," p. 521. chapters 2 and 5; see also TWH, "The First Black Regiment," p. 521.

"from the dull and tedious drudgery": Cabell and Hanna, The St. Johns, The St. Johns, p. 208. p. 208.

"a mere plantation-guard or a day-school in uniform": TWH, "Scattered Notes re Colored Troops," Houghton.

"Intensely human": TWH to LSH, May 6, 1863, Houghton.

"I had been an abolitionist too long": Army Life, Army Life, p. 3. p. 3.

"like vexed ghosts of departed slave-lords": December 10, 1862, Civil War Journal, Civil War Journal, p. 251. p. 251.

"The first man who organizes & commands": TWH, journal, November 23, 1862, Houghton.

a small book of Shakespeare's sonnets: I am indebted to Kent Bicknell for showing me TWH's copy of Shakespeare, with its notes by TWH.