A
 
Manuscripts from the Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College, will be indicated by this initial and the catalog number. Leaves following the first leaf of a manuscript are identified by the catalog number plus a letter (a, b, c, etc.). The numbers on the manuscripts at Amherst College were assigned by Jay Leyda, who arranged and described the materials while they were housed in the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. Leyda assigned catalog numbers first to the fascicles (80–95), then to the unbound poems (96–540), and finally to the letters, drafts, and fragments (541–1012). The poems were numbered alphabetically by first line, and the letters were numbered alphabetically by correspondent. The arrangement within each correspondence was intended by Leyda to be chronological. 
 
BM
 
Todd, Mabel Loomis, and Millicent Todd Bingham, eds. Bolts of Melody. New York: Harper, 1945. Citations are to page number.
 
FF
 
Bianchi, Martha Dickinson. Emily Dickinson: Face to Face: Unpublished Letters with Notes and Reminiscences. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. Citations are to page number.
 
FP
 
Franklin, Ralph W., ed. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: The Variorum Edition. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. Citations are to poem number.
 
JP
 
Johnson, Thomas H., ed. The Poems of Emily Dickinson, 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1955. Citations are to poem number.
 
L
 
Johnson, Thomas H., and Theodora Ward, eds. The Letters of Emily Dickinson, 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958. Citations are to letter number.
 
MB
 
Franklin, R. W., ed. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. Citations are to volume, fascicle (or set = s), and date.
 
ML
 
Franklin, R. W., ed. The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson. Amherst, Mass.: Amherst College Press, 1986. Citations are to letter number.
 
NEQ
 
The New England Quarterly. All citations are to “Prose Fragments of Emily Dickinson,” ed. Millicent Todd Bingham, NEQ 28 (September 1955): 291–318.
 
OF
 
Emily Dickinson’s Open Folios: Scenes of Reading Surfaces of Writing, ed. Marta L. Werner. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1995.
 
PF
 
This refers to those writings classified by Thomas H. Johnson as “prose fragments” and printed in Letters (1958), 911–29. Citations are to prose fragment number.
 
Rev.
 
Bingham, Millicent Todd. Emily Dickinson: A Revelation. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954. Citations are to page number.