"I have her letter to Mr. Higginson": MLT, diary, July 20, 1890, Yale.

"There came a day": "There came a Day-at Summer's full-," Fr 325.

"Your name should appear somewhere": TWH to MLT, September 12, 1890, Yale.

"It is proper": TWH to MLT, September 17, 1890, Yale.

"Emerson said, many years since": TWH, "An Open Portfolio," Christian Union, Christian Union, September 25, 1890, p. 392. Subsequent quotations and poems are from this article. September 25, 1890, p. 392. Subsequent quotations and poems are from this article.

"delineate, by a few touches": TWH, preface to Poems, Poems, First Series. First Series.

"Glee-": "Glee-The great storm is over-," Fr 685; "I never saw": "I never saw a Moor," Fr 800; "Soul, wilt thou": See also "Soul, Wilt thou toss again?" Fr 89.

"I died": "I died for Beauty-but was scarce," Fr 448.

"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers-": Fr 124.

"I am astounded astounded": TWH to MLT, November 12, 1890, Yale.

"No Brigadier throughout the Year": Fr 1596; "A Route of Evanescence": Fr 1489; "Dare you see a Soul at the 'White Heat'?": Fr 401; "The nearest Dream recedes-unrealized-": Fr 304; "When I hoped I feared-": Fr 594; "Before I got my eye put out-": Fr 336B; "It sifts from Leaden Sieves": Fr 291D; "A Bird, came down the Walk-": Fr 359.

"Your riches taught me poverty": In Fr 418B.

"This shows we must must have another volume": TWH to MLT, November 12, 1890, Yale. have another volume": TWH to MLT, November 12, 1890, Yale.

"the only person who can feel as I do" "I feel...as if we had climbed": TWH to MLT, December 15, 1890, Yale.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: ME-COME! MY DAZZLED FACE Fed for years: See Stedman, Poets of America, Poets of America, pp. 457461; see also Stedman, pp. 457461; see also Stedman, An American Anthology, An American Anthology, pp. xvxxiv. pp. xvxxiv.

"A poet, most of all, should not believe in limitations": Stedman, Poets of America, Poets of America, p. 461. p. 461.

"b.i.t.c.h-G.o.ddess success": See Richardson, William James, William James, p. 306. p. 306.

"at the head of all American fiction": TWH to Edith Wharton, December 5, 1905, Beinecke Rare Book and Ma.n.u.script Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

"n.o.body reads Th.o.r.eau": TWH, journal, December 23, 1866, Houghton; see also Malbone, Malbone, pp. 99100. pp. 99100.

"irresistible needle-touch": [TWH], Recent Poetry, Nation, Nation, November 27, 1890, p. 423. November 27, 1890, p. 423.

if "nothing else had come out of our life": [Howells], Editor's Study, p. 320.

"I have hoped and hoped": MLT, diary, December 31, 1890, Yale.

Apprised of some internecine warfare: See TWH to MLT, December 23, 1890, Yale.

And to her great satisfaction: It is not clear whether she kept the money or gave it to Lavinia, but it seems she kept it; she also kept one hundred dollars from book royalties, the same amount paid Higginson.

"I think there is in literary history": TWH to Brander Matthews, March 24, 1891, Butler.

"the art art of composition": of composition": New World, New World, p. 16; see Th.o.r.eau, "The Last Days of John Brown," in p. 16; see Th.o.r.eau, "The Last Days of John Brown," in A Yankee in Canada, A Yankee in Canada, p. 284. p. 284.

"Let us alter as little as possible": TWH to MLT, April 21, 1891, Yale.

"put so in order to have the rhyme perfect": MLT to TWH, July 18, 1891, BPL.

"Whose are the little beds-I asked": Fr 85.

when Todd wanted to replace: See MLT to TWH, July 13, 1891, BPL; "Dare you see a Soul at the 'White Heat'?": Fr 401.

"One poem only I dread a little to print": TWH to MLT, April 21, 1891, Yale; "'Wild Nights'": "Wild nights-Wild nights!" Fr 269.

"Further in Summer than the Birds-": Fr 895; "They dropped like Flakes-": Fr 545.

"It was not Death, for I stood up": Poems, Poems, Second Series; the poem is Fr 355. Second Series; the poem is Fr 355.

"it might do well for you to suggest": TWH to MLT, August 4, 1891, Yale.

"all interference not absolutely inevitable": This and the subsequent quotation is from MLT, preface to Poems, Poems, Second Series. Second Series.

"It would seem that at first I tried a little": This and subsequent quotations are from TWH, "Emily d.i.c.kinson's Letters."

"Essential oils": "Essential Oils-are wrung," Fr 772; "Wild nights!": "Wild nights-Wild nights!" Fr 269; "Going to him!": "Going to Him! Happy letter!" Fr 277; "Their height": "Their Hight in Heaven comforts not-," Fr 725.

the more they balked: Quotations in AB, AB, pp. 174175. pp. 174175.

"I honestly think his mind unbalanced": Thomas Bailey Aldrich, quoted in Lubbers, Emily d.i.c.kinson, Emily d.i.c.kinson, p. 202. p. 202.

"I fail to detect in her work": [Aldrich], "The Contributors' Club," p. 144.

"It is rea.s.suring to hear the English": Alice James, The Diary of Alice James, The Diary of Alice James, p. 227. p. 227.

"I had expected to leave the letters entirely to you": TWH to MLT, May 13, 1893, BPL.

"give the copyright of Emily's mind to anyone": LD, quoted in TWH to MLT, May 30, 1893, BPL.

it "will be the last, I suppose": TWH to MLT, August 27, 1893, Yale.

"I wish as I always do": TWH to MLT, September 27, 1895, Yale.

"mystic and bizarre Emily": TWH to MLT, November 29, 1894, Yale.

"I think she can trust my honor": LD, quoted in AB, AB, p. 297. p. 297.

"It is noticeable, also, that in a few of the poems": [TWH], Recent Poetry, Nation, Nation, October 8, 1896, p. 275. October 8, 1896, p. 275.

"Her vogue has pa.s.sed": Literary Notes, New York Tribune, New York Tribune, [August 23, 1896], quoted in [August 23, 1896], quoted in AB, AB, p. 345. p. 345.

"often like that of Emily d.i.c.kinson": [TWH], Recent Poetry, Nation, Nation, December 11, 1902, p. 465. December 11, 1902, p. 465.

"best for now": WAD, quoted in Austin and Mabel, Austin and Mabel, p. 297. p. 297.

"moral quicksand": Austin and Mabel, Austin and Mabel, p. 412. p. 412.

Evidently Mrs. Todd had forgotten: Later commentators see Sue maliciously guiding the suit from a discreet distance in order to take revenge on the woman who wrecked her home.

"I shall die standing up": MLT, diary, December 31, 1898, Yale.

"blight of self-interest and self-glorification": MTB, notes, February 27August 30, 1927, Yale.

"Me-Come! My dazzled face": Fr 389.

CHAPTER NINETEEN: BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP "American literature is not": New World, New World, p. 34. p. 34.

"the mixture of nationalities is constantly coining": TWH, "Letter to a Young Contributor," p. 406.

"the art of composition is as simple": Henry David Th.o.r.eau, quoted in New World, New World, p. 16. p. 16.

"Mr. James has no doubt placed himself": New World, New World, pp. 6566. pp. 6566.

"Let the picture only be well drawn": Book and Heart, Book and Heart, p. 43. p. 43.

"in case I were going to prison": "The Biography of Browning's Fame," Boston Browning Society Papers, 18861897, quoted in Hintz, "Thomas Wentworth Higginson," p. 483.

"in attempting to enforce...[fixed] laws": TWH, preface to TWH and Bigelow, American Sonnets, American Sonnets, p. iii. He included sonnets by Poe, Edwin Markham, Henry Timrod, Jones Very, Whittier, and Ellery Channing as well as a large number of women sonneteers, including his wife, Minnie, Emma Lazarus, Maria Lowell, Harriet Monroe, Louise Brooks, and Edith Wharton. p. iii. He included sonnets by Poe, Edwin Markham, Henry Timrod, Jones Very, Whittier, and Ellery Channing as well as a large number of women sonneteers, including his wife, Minnie, Emma Lazarus, Maria Lowell, Harriet Monroe, Louise Brooks, and Edith Wharton.

the "American poet of pa.s.sion is yet to come": TWH, "Americanism in Literature," p. 59.

"She is to be tested": [TWH], Recent Poetry, Nation, Nation, October 8, 1896, p. 275. October 8, 1896, p. 275.

"We take for granted": "Leading Figures in American Literature," Dial, Dial, November 1, 1903, p. 314. November 1, 1903, p. 314.

"She died,-this was the way she died": Fr 154. was the way she died": Fr 154.

"a strange, solitary, morbidly sensitive": TWH and Boynton, A Reader's History of American Literature, A Reader's History of American Literature, p. 131. p. 131.

"stands at the opposite remove": TWH and Boynton, A Reader's History of American Literature, A Reader's History of American Literature, p. 131. p. 131.

"an admiring Bog": In "I'm n.o.body! Who are you?" Fr 260.

"It would be easy to make up a long list of authors": Book and Heart, Book and Heart, p. 208. p. 208.

"Perhaps the more we are destined": Book and Heart, Book and Heart, p. 210. p. 210.

"Few of us now remain who were baptized": TWH to Edna Dow Cheney, December 27, 1893, Smith.

"just as near slavery as possible": TWH, "The Case of the Carpet Baggers," Nation, Nation, March 2, 1899, pp. 162163. March 2, 1899, pp. 162163.

"To those who were living": CY, CY, p. 363. p. 363.

"Freedom is freedom": TWH, "Where Liberty Is Not, There Is My Country," Harper's Bazaar, Harper's Bazaar, August 12, 1899, p. 671. August 12, 1899, p. 671.

"These people have a right to the freedom of civilization": TWH, quoted in Strange Enthusiasm, Strange Enthusiasm, p. 389. p. 389.

"must cut adrift from every organization": TWH, "Address to the Colored People of the United States," September 26, 1900, Houghton. Ironically, racism fueled the anti-imperialism of the Democratic candidates, who wished to steer clear of "brown" Filipinos.

"I have yours of Nov. 23rd": TWH to William Jennings Bryan, copy marked "private," November 27, 1901, Houghton.

"a freedom tempered by chain-gangs, lynching, and the lash": TWH's essay "Intensely Human," originally published in the Atlantic Monthly Atlantic Monthly in 1904, was collected in in 1904, was collected in Part, Part, p. 114. p. 114.

"Was any white man ever lynched": "Intensely Human," in Part, Part, p. 121. p. 121.

"As the memories of the slave period fade away": "Intensely Human," in Part, Part, p. 136. p. 136.

"I am a man old enough to recall": TWH, introduction to William Sinclair, The Aftermath of Slavery, The Aftermath of Slavery, p. xi. p. xi.

"the fact of colorphobia": TWH to Brander Matthews, September 14, 1906, Butler.

"it is important for this race to produce": "Intensely Human," in Part, Part, p. 130. p. 130.

"They saved you": TWH, from "Now and Then," Harvard Graduates Magazine, Harvard Graduates Magazine, September 1904, p. 47. September 1904, p. 47.

"No white community will ever consent": TWH, Boston Evening Transcript, Boston Evening Transcript, June 1, 1909. June 1, 1909.

"Cheerful Yesterdays is indeed, in spite of its cheer": Henry James, "American Letter," p. 677. is indeed, in spite of its cheer": Henry James, "American Letter," p. 677.

"He is too much of a moralist": Theodore Tilton, The Golden Age The Golden Age (1871), pasted into TWH's (1871), pasted into TWH's Atlantic Essays Atlantic Essays sc.r.a.pbook, Houghton. sc.r.a.pbook, Houghton.

"There are so many younger writers to be recognized & encouraged": TWH to Edmund Clarence Stedman, August 6, 1905, Butler.

"The old trees must fall in order to give the younger growth a chance": Book and Heart, Book and Heart, p. 189. p. 189.

"but for some inches of s.p.a.ce": TWH, TWH, p. 388. p. 388.

"All teaches us": TWH, "The Favorites of a Day," Independent, Independent, November 19, 1896, p. 2. November 19, 1896, p. 2.

"was prized as having gained a second place": CY, CY, p. 183. p. 183.

"occupied intensely in practical affairs": Santayana, The Genteel Tradition, The Genteel Tradition, pp. 3940. pp. 3940.

"sicklied o'er with T. W. Higginson": Alice James, The Diary of Alice James, The Diary of Alice James, p. 227. p. 227.

"There is not, to my mind": Amy Lowell, quoted in Damon, Amy Lowell, Amy Lowell, p. 611. p. 611.

"uncertain certainty": In Fr 1421.

"unconscious and uncatalogued": Quoted in Monroe, "The Single Hound," p. 138.

"dug out of her native granite": Quoted in Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, "An Early Imagist," New Republic, New Republic, [August 14, 1915]; quoted in Blake and Wells, [August 14, 1915]; quoted in Blake and Wells, The Recognition of Emily d.i.c.kinson, The Recognition of Emily d.i.c.kinson, p. 89. p. 89.