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Jessie B. Wortman letter to Mabel Loomis Todd
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Date Created
1886 - 1896
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The letter is dated May 11 with no year given. The date range is based on the year Emily Dickinson died and the year the final volume of Dickinson's poems and letters that Mabel Loomis Todd edited was published.
Physical Description
1 item (3 pages) + 1 enclosure (2 pages)
Abstract
A letter from Jessie B. Wortman to Mabel Loomis Todd. In the letter Wortman tells Todd an anecdote about her husband Dr. Wortman (Denys Wortman), who was preaching in Albany and found a page left behind in the pulpit by the previous minister that included two transcribed Emily Dickinson poems "If I can stop one heart" and "The pedigree of honey" written on the backside of an order of service, which was enclosed with the letter. The two poems were published by Mabel Loomis Todd in the first series of Poems by Emily Dickinson. "Denis Wortman" is written on the enclosure in an unknown hand. The transcribed poems accompanying the letter may relate to Emily Dickinson's manuscripts of "If I can stop one heart" and "The pedigree of honey" in this collection (Amherst Manuscripts 422 and 423).
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Amherst Manuscript # 422
Amherst Manuscript # 423
Franklin # 982
Franklin # 1650
Johnson Poems # 919
Johnson Poems # 1627
Amherst Manuscript # 423
Franklin # 982
Franklin # 1650
Johnson Poems # 919
Johnson Poems # 1627
Language
English
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