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know "the morning stars never did sing together"

or [as] "jocund day stand tip-toe on the misty

mountain top"! I enclose a poem in her own

hand which you can use or not as you please

and in a few days, shall send you several little poems

which you can use or not as you care but

kindly return - Emily never wrote long poems -

the longest are in her volume. The money part

is of little value any way. Anything you do will

be satisfactory. Mr Dickinson thinks Col.

Higginson and Niles are to bring out another vol.

of the poems, it is not best or fair to them to

print many. I do not feel in any way bound

to them, but will of course defer to his wish in the

matter.

     Yours cordially

          S. H. Dickinson