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Text from Open Folios is reprinted by permission of the University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, @ 1995.
 
Passages from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Reprinted by permission of the publishers from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, Copyright 1914, 1929, 1935, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi; copyright © renewed 1957, 1963 by Mary L. Hampson.
 
Passages from The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
 
Passages from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition. Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Ralph W. Franklin, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
 
Passages from The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Reprinted by permission of the publishers from The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1958, 1986 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
 
Passages from The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. Reprinted by permission of the publishers from The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by Ralph W. Franklin, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1981 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, © 1951, 1955, 1978, 1980 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, © 1914, 1924, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi.
 
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My greatest debt here is to Curator and staff of the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. Mike Kelly’s far-reaching vision of an entirely open Emily Dickinson archive is, under his curatorship, quickly becoming a reality. Archivist Mimi Dakin’s extraordinary knowledge of Dickinson’s work and her constant assistance with my research make her my collaborator: whatever is best here issues from Mike Kelly's and Mimi Dakin's advice, while any errors are entirely owned only by me.