The Letters of Emily Dickinson

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION NOTES ON THE PRESENT TEXT Symbols Used Identify Manuscripts Symbols Used Indentify Publication LETTERS 1....the Hens lay finely... Letters 1-14 [1842-1846] 2. am really at Mt Holyoke... Letters 15-26 [1847-1848] 3. Amherst is alive with fun this winter Letters 27-39 [1849-1850] 4. ...we do not have much poetry, father having made up his mind that its pretty much all real life. Letters 40-176 [1851-1854] 5. To live, and die, and mount again in triumphant body... is no schoolboy's theme! Letters 177-186 [1855-1857] 6. Much has occurred...so much that I stagger as I write, in its sharp remembrance. Letters 187-245 [1858-1861] 7. Perhaps you smile at me. I could not stop for that My Business is Circumference. Letters 246-313 [1862-1861] 8. Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Letters 314-337 [1866-1869] 9. find ecstasy in living--the mere sense of living is joy enough. Letters 338-431 [1870-1874] 10. Nature is a Haunted House--but Art--a House that tries to be haunted. Letters 432-626 [1875-1879] 11. hesitate which word to take, as I can take but few and each must be the chiefest... Letters 627-878 [1880-1883] 12. ...a Letter is a joy of Earth--it is denied the Gods. Letters 879-1045 [1884-1886] PROSE FRAGMENTS APPENDIXES 1. Biographical Sketches of Recipients of Letters and of Persons Mentioned in Them 2. A Note on the Domestic Help 3. Recipients of Letters INDEX INDEX OF POEMS