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Three Out of Four Ain't Bad

3/10/2025

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William Hayes Ward joined the editorial staff of the New York Independent in 1868 and remained with the Independent thereafter, rising by degrees to editor in chief (1896–1913), and then honorary editor.
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In 1890, after the debut of Emily Dickinson’s “Poems,” the paper published a review.  I could not find a copy of the complete review; however, I do know that it noted that her “modest verses … [are] piquant, spirited…and are cast in no conventional mold.”  It stated that the poems “bear the stamp of original genius. … there is nothing like these poems in the language.”

After the review appeared in the paper, Ward wrote to editor Mabel Loomis Todd and asked if there were other unpublished poems:  “If there are any others that compare with the best ones in the volume, I should like much to publish them in The Independent.”

In the letter he stated, “I am thoroughly surprised at the excellence of the poems.  I have read them over and over at my home to my sisters, and three or four of them cling in my memory.  She had a real genius, and it is extraordinary that with her sense of poetic thought and her sense of metre too, she had absolutely no sense of rhyme.”

Evidently, rhyme was extremely important in the 19th century.

Anyway, in compliance with his request for additional poems, Todd and Lavinia Dickinson selected four poems to send to him in January 1891.

Within the month, Ward replied to thank her for the poems.

“Three of them I will take and print as soon as I may.  They are fresh and interesting.  One of them I return.  It seems to me so unsatisfactory in the way the last two verses are worked up.  I am afraid I fail to catch the meaning except generally.”

Which poems did he accept, which one did he return?

Stay tuned!


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In late 1890, William Hayes Ward, an editor of The Independent in New York, published a favorable review of Emily Dickinson’s Poems (published posthumously); he then wrote to the book’s editor Mabel Loomis Todd and requested additional poems for his paper to publish. 

In January 1891, Todd sent him four poems, and within the month, Ward replied:

“Three of them I will take and print as soon as I may.  They are fresh and interesting.  One of them I return.  It seems to me so unsatisfactory in the way the last two verses are worked up.  I am afraid I fail to catch the meaning except generally.”

Which poems did he accept, which one did he return?

The rejected poem (“if my memory does not fail me,” wrote Todd’s daughter Millicent Todd Bingham in “Ancestors’ Brocades, the Literary Debut of Emily Dickinson”) was “Of tribulation these are they.”

Below:  "Of Tribulation, these are they."  Why did Dickinson misspell "ankle" as "ancle"?  I'll look into that in the coming days. 
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The three which he accepted were “I held a jewel in my fingers,” “God made a little gentian,” and “Went up a year this evening.

All three of these poems were included in the Second Series of “Poems” published later in that year (click the images below to enlarge).
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I'll look into these three poems in the coming days.
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Family Affair

2/12/2025

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Only two books were written about Emily Dickinson by people who actually knew the poet.  “Emily Dickinson, Face to Face” was written by her niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, and “Emily Dickinson, Friend and Neighbor” was written by Macgregor Jenkins, a friend and neighbor.

Mabel Loomis Todd, Dickinson’s brother’s mistress (she was 25 and he was 53 when they first met) and the editor of the first edition of Dickinson’s poetry (published posthumously), never met the poet.  She did speak to the poet – between rooms and doorways – but she never actually laid eyes on the poet until Dickinson was lying in her coffin.

Todd’s daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham, later wrote about her mother’s work as the editor of Dickinson’s poetry in her 1945 tome, “Ancestors’ Brocades, the Literary Debut of Emily Dickinson.”  In that book, she also wrote about Emily Dickinson, whom she never met, and she described the poet’s siblings, Austin and Lavinia, whom she did meet.

“It was not Emily…but her closest relatives who fashioned the pattern of my life,” wrote Bingham.​
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With regard to Dickinson’s sister Lavinia, Bingham said, “The harsh qualities of her father…had settled upon her.”

She described Lavinia with “an uncompromising, slender little figure.”  She continued, “her sour, shriveled face with its long nose was wrinkled like a witch of the fairytale, her hands twisted and knotted like the faggots in the wood box. But her hair, her marvelous dark hair streaked with gray, seemed to concentrate all the juices of her wizened body – heavy, luxuriant, the focus of interest in her person.  Sometimes it was tied in a sort of bowknot on the back of her head, held fast by two large pins shoved in from either side.  But often she sat there with it hanging, while with her gnarled hands, outspread fingers rigidly extended, she thrust through it slowly, caressing it from root to farthest tip….Any tradition which pictures her as a mild, sweet New England spinster will be dissipated, I think, during the course of this narrative.”

Why so?

We tend to picture the Dickinsons as a starched and strait-laced Victorian family from the bucolic college town of Amherst in the rolling hills of rural Massachusetts. The relationships between family members, friends and lovers, however, were filled with surprising levels of drama and passion. 


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Following Emily’s death, Lavinia first turned to her sister-in-law Susan with her hopes of having her sister’s poetry published; after the work plodded along slowly and sluggishly, though, Lavinia enlisted the help of Austin’s mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd.  After Austin’s death though, Lavinia clashed with Mabel Todd in court over a tract of land that Austin had promised Todd and her husband.

Hence, the harsh description of Lavinia Dickinson noted above.

And what of Austin Dickinson?  How did Bingham describe him?
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Stay tuned! I’ll get to Austin tomorrow.
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Family Feud

1/29/2025

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The Dickinsons of Amherst, MA, might appear to us in the 21st century to be a prim and proper Victorian family.  Additionally, one might think the efforts to publish Dickinson’s poems following her death were nothing more than a labor or love – but it was anything but.  

In regards to the family and the efforts to publish Dickinson’s poetry posthumously, complications (and outright feuds) developed on multiple fronts.  First, Dickinson’s brother Austin engaged in a torrid love affair with Mabel Loomis Todd, the wife of an Amherst College astronomy professor. Later, Emily’s sister Lavinia Dickinson grew frustrated with her sister-in-law Susan’s sluggish work with editing her sister’s poems.  Plus, not long after the publication of the early editions of Dickinson’s poetry, Lavinia took Mabel Loomis Todd to court over a parcel of land promised to the Todds by Austin Dickinson. And all of that just scratches the surface.

Below, left to right:  Lavinia Dickinson, Susan Dickinson, Austin Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd

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Interestingly, these issues relate to some of my recent posts about the corrections that Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson had to make to the first edition of Dickinson’s poetry after the book of selected poems was published in 1890.  

For example, in an 1891 letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Mabel Loomis Todd, Higginson wrote about a typo discovered by Susan Dickinson in the poem “I know some lonely houses off the road”:  “Mrs. Dickinson thinks ‘a pair of spectacles afar just stir’ should be ‘ajar’ as in her MS.  If you approve please notify Mr. Niles” (the publisher rep with Roberts Brothers, the company which printed and distributed the first edition of Dickinson’s poetry).

Susan Dickinson did, in fact, bring the “afar”/”ajar” misprint to Higginson’s attention – and Millicent Todd Bingham, Mabel Loomis Todd’s daughter, wrote about this in her 1945 account of her mother’s work in editing and publishing Dickinson’s work:

“Sue was right about the spectacles. But instead of calling the mistake to the attention of her neighbor (i.e, Mabel Loomis Todd), Mrs. Dickinson had notified Colonel Higginson.  It may seem a trivial matter to have approached in so roundabout a way – writing to a distant gentleman whom she did not know in order to reach an editor close at hand.  But it cannot be repeated too often that no mistake was overlooked as an occasion for blame. In spite of the welter of Dickinson animosities in which my mother was involved, however – any by now she and Sue were not on speaking terms – she was able to detach herself sufficiently to acknowledge that Sue had caught her in a mistake. It was corrected in the next edition of the book.”

Yes, the correction was made. But things only got hotter.

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Treasure Hunt

1/20/2025

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I’ve been writing about the time when, shortly after Emily Dickinson’s death, the poet’s sister, Lavinia, visited Mabel Loomis Todd with a box full of Emily’s poems.  Todd recognized immediately the box contained “a veritable treasure.”

She then organized the poems into three categories:  finished poems (i.e., those Dickinson had copied into her fascicles); those in “rough form” but contained “breath-taking thoughts,” and fragments with “merely the glint of an idea.”

Todd then selected about two hundred of the poems which she deemed the best, and off she went to consult with Dickinson’s friend and mentor, Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

On November 6, 1889, Higginson visited Todd’s home to review the poems and to discuss (from his diary) “the best way of editing them.”

He had suggested that Todd sort “the best ones, and (her) own favorites” into three groups; from Todd’s journal:

“A – Not only those of most original thought, but expressed in the best form…B, those with striking ideas, but with too many of her peculiarities of construction to be used unaltered for the public, and C, those I considered too obscure or too irregular in form for public use, however brilliant and suggestive.”

In a number of days, Todd finished this task and sent the classified poems to Higginson.  He wrote back to Todd:

“I can’t tell you how much I am enjoying the poems. There are many new to me which take my breath away and which also have form beyond most of those I have seen before.”  

Higginson was very much worried about Dickinson’s “form” as evidenced by his preface to the 1890 publication of Dickinson’s “Poems.”  I wrote about that HERE.

Higginson sorted through Todd’s selections (“rejecting some – provisionally”), and he divided the rest into three headings:

  1. Life
  2. Nature
  3. Time, Death, and Eternity

He was now very excited about the project and told Todd that the plates for the book’s pages would cost $1 per page, and since some pages could contain more than one poem, the total cost would be about $230 for 250 pages with 300 poems.

“Would that satisfy Miss Lavinia?” he asked.

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Categorical Logic

1/19/2025

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Yesterday I posted info from Mabel Loomis Todd’s journal about Lavinia Dickinson’s visit to her home with “a veritable treasure – a box full of Emily’s poems.”  At that time, Lavinia asked Mabel if she could help with getting the poems published.

Todd then turned to Dickinson’s friend and mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson for help.

Below, left to right:  Mabel Loomis Todd, Lavinia Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson


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Todd realized that “all could not be taken to him” so she organized “the vast conglomerate of poems” into three categories  Todd’s daughter Millicent Todd Bingham described her mother’s classifications as follows:

“Those which Emily had copied into the little ‘volumes’ were finished poems.  Others, though rough in form, contained breath-taking thoughts.  Still others had merely the glint of an idea, jotted down for future use.”

After categorizing the poems Todd wrote in her journal, “I selected from among the hundreds of copied poems about two hundred of the most characteristic, most different from the mediocre verse being put forth in papers and magazines.  Armed with what seemed to me the most remarkable poems written within recent years, I went to Cambridge to interrogate Mr. Higginson.”

And what was Mr. Higginson’s reaction and his advice?

I’ll cover that tomorrow!  Stay tuned!


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Jerk Reaction

1/18/2025

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Emily Dickinson died in May 1886.

In her will, which is dated 19 October 1875, Dickinson left her entire estate to her sister Lavinia: “I give devise and bequeath to my only sister Lavinia N. Dickinson all my estate, real and personal, to have and to hold the same to her and her heirs, and assigns forever.”

The precise nature of Dickinson’s “direction” to Lavinia remains unclear, though. According to Mabel Loomis Todd, Lavinia was uncertain about Dickinson’s exact “wishes” as to what to do with all of her personal effects.

Following Dickinson’s death and prior to contacting Todd – this according to Todd – Lavinia had destroyed all of Emily’s correspondence as per “Emily’s direction.”

Todd then wrote the following in her journal:

“Soon after her death her sister Lavinia came to me, as usual in late evening, actually trembling with excitement. She told me she had discovered a veritable treasure – quantities of Emily’s poems which she had had no instructions to destroy. She had already burned without examination hundreds of manuscripts, and letters to Emily, many of them from nationally known persons, thus, she believed, carrying out her sister’s partly expressed wishes, but without intelligent discrimination. Later she bitterly regretted such inordinate haste. But these poems, she told me, must be printed at once.”

This journal entry comes from Todd’s article in the March 1930 “Harper’s Monthly Magazine,” “Emily Dickinson’s Literary Debut.”  

By the way (and this is a bit odd), in exploring leads to that article, I found this article — a totally unrelated piece by Andy Borowitz about “Emily Dickinson: Jerk of Amherst.”  
Hmm…I usually find Borowitz funny.  This column, while waggish, isn’t one of his best.

To access the article, click the pic at the right, or click HERE.
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Decisions, Decisions

10/28/2024

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Shortly after Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her sister Lavinia Dickinson turned to their sister-in-law Susan Dickinson to explore the possibilities of publishing some of Emily’s poetry.  

She grew frustrated with Susan’s slow progress, so she asked her brother’s mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd to help.  Mabel agreed and enlisted the help of Dickinson’s friend and mentor, Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 

As a result, a series of books were published in 1890, 1891, and 1896. These three volumes accounted for about 25% of Dickinson’s work – but then all work came to a halt.
In her 1945 publication “Bolts of Melody,” Todd’s daughter Millicent Todd Bingham wrote of Dickinson’s poetry, “Given to my mother by Lavinia Dickinson to publish, (but the work) halted on their way to the press by an imbroglio unrelated to literature….”

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Far right:  Lavinia Dickinson
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The lawsuit involved a dispute over a piece of land that Austin Dickinson had promised to give to Mabel Todd, but Lavinia contested the transfer after Austin's death.  This led to the court case that Lavinia ultimately won – which caused a major rift between the Dickinson family and Mabel Todd.  Todd then withheld her collection of the unpublished poems she had in her possession. She locked them in a camphor wood chest.

So why did Todd decide to open that chest in 1929?


I can’t find any info at this point to explain exactly why she made that choice.

* In one article, I found this statement, that “(Lavinia) won the lawsuit but Todd refused to continue the project during Lavinia's lifetime.”  However, Lavinia Dickinson died in 1899, and Todd opened the chest some 30 years later – so I don’t think Lavinia’s death had anything to do with the decision.

* Did Todd suffer from some malady where she knew she might be approaching the end of her life?  Well, in 1929 she was 73 years old, so maybe age did play a part in her decision, but it was not due to any terminal illness.  She died three years later of a cerebral hemorrhage on October 14, 1932.

* In another article I found this:  “Martha Dickinson Bianchi, the poet's niece, inherited the poet's manuscripts from her mother Susan, except for those in Todd's possession. Between 1913 and 1937, she produced six books of Emily's poetry and two biographies, occasionally with assistance from Alfred Leete Hampton. Todd, upset at the rival publications and assuming only she had legal rights to Emily's works, released an updated edition of her compilation in 1931.”

Of course, any book published AFTER 1929 could not have been a factor in Todd’s decision to open that chest. 15 years earlier, in 1914, Bianchi published “The Single Hound,” a volume of poems by Dickinson so I doubt that was on Todd’s mind; however, in 1928 Bianchi published “Further Poems by Emily Dickinson Withheld from Publication by Her Sister Lavinia” – so it is very likely that this publication prompted Todd to act.  

Whatever the reason, we know that Todd and her daughter unlocked that chest in 1929, and sixteen years later, all of those previously unpublished poems were finally in print.

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Family Feud

10/13/2024

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Emily Dickinson died in 1886, and it wasn’t until 1955 that the first “complete” edition of her poetry was published, edited by Thomas Johnson.  That volume was later updated in 1998 by R. W. Franklin and again in 2016 by Cristanne Miller.  But what came before all of this?

In a nutshell:

* Dickinson’s poems are discovered after her death, and sister Lavinia enlisted the help of her sister-in-law Susan to get them published.

* Unhappy with the slow pace, Lavinia turned to her brother’s mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd (LOL – just like the youth of today, she was proficient with the use of the day’s new technology – the  typewriter).

* As a result, Dickisnon’s poetry was spread among three households: some with Lavinia Dickinson, some with Susan Dickinson, and the rest with Mabel Loomis Todd.

* With the help of Dickisnn’s friend Thomas Wentworth HIgginson, Todd published the first edition of Dickinson’s poetry in 1890.

* The second and third editions were published in 1891 and 1896.  Todd also published an edition of Dickinson’s letters in 1894.

* However, all efforts to publish more of Dickinson’s poetry came to a halt in 1898  due to a “painful” lawsuit between Lavinia Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd.  The suit was not over the poetry, though; it was all about a small parcel of land Austin Dickinson (who had died in 1895) had promised to Mabel Todd and her husband.

* Angered by the fact that Lavinia Dickinson won the lawsuit, Mabel Loomis Todd locked all of the remaining poetry she had in her possession in a chest – and it wasn’t opened for more than forty years.

* In the meantime, between 1914 and 1935, other volumes of Dickinson’s poetry were published by Emily’s niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson (and just as an FYI:  I need to research more about Hampson because I’m not sure who he was exactly – although I know that upon Martha Dickinson Bianchi's death in 1943, the Hampsons inherited Susan and Austin Dickinson's house, the Evergreens).

* In the meantime, Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter Millicent Todd Bingham unlocked that chest of poetry, and they worked on a volume entitled “Bolts of Melody” which included 600 previously unpublished poems. Mabel died in 1932, but daughter Millicent saw the project through, and the volume was published in 1945 – under both names:  Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham.
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More on this at a later date; for now, more info is found HERE and HERE.
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What Ales You

3/12/2018

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From our food editor Verla Burrell-Bordelon:

March 12th is trending on Twitter as #312Day, some sort of beer holiday, and I’m not sure why.  It’s not National Beer Day – that is April 7th, a date set by Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed – at her request) in 1861 to mark the day that President Lincoln signed a law allowing people to buy, sell and drink beer containing up to 3.2% alcohol by (or 4.05% by volume).  After signing the law, Lincoln said, “I think this would be a good time for beer.”
 
No, it seems as though #312Day is a made-up holiday concocted by the Goose Island Beer Company which is located in Chicago.  The company brews “312 Urban Wheat Ale” and “312 Urban Pale Ale,” named for an area code in Chicago, 312.
 
Whether you enjoy a beer today or on National Beer Day, April 7th (or even on every night in between), we thought you’d enjoy Emmett Lee Dickinson’s ode to beer, “Our share tonight of beer” (below on the left).  Dickinson’s poem inspired his third cousin Emily Dickinson to down a case of tall boys and pen her poem “Our share of night to bear” (below on the right). 

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
Our share tonight of beer,
Our share of cold ones.
Our tank of bliss to fill,
Our tank of cold ones.
 
Here a draft, and there a draft,
We’ll find our way.
Here a malt, and there a malt,
After who’ll – pay?
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By Emily Dickinson:
 
Our share of night to bear,
Our share of morning,
Our blank to bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning.
 
Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way.
Here a mist, and there a mist,
Afterwards – day!
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​Pictured at the right:  A familiar site on March 12, April ;7 (National Beer Day), or any spring, summer, or fall day in Amherst, Massachusetts:  Lavinia Dickinson on the front lawn of the Dickinson Homestead with beers in hand.
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The Cat's Meow

2/17/2018

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From our 19th century historian Eudora Dickinson:

Today is World Cat Day, established in 1853 by Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed – at her request) to honor third cousin Lavinia Dickinson who, unlike her sister Emily, loved cats.  Emmett Lee Dickinson loved cats too.
 
Lavinia Dickinson was very appreciative of Emmett Lee’s establishment of World Cat Day – “a day when cats can think they are the rulers of the world,” she said.
 
“Just like every other day,” replied Emily.

Pictured at the right:  Lavinia Dickinson and her cat Drummy-Doodles.
 
Emmett Lee Dickinson wrote several poems about cats, including “My Human – I’ll meow” (below on the left).  His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem “My Maker – let me be” (below on the right).  
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By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

My Human – I'll meow
A Word of two for thee –
But knowing this
When mad I'll hiss –
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By Emily Dickinson:


My Maker – let me be
A World of two from thee –
But nearer this
I more should miss –


Picture below:  A photograph of Emmett Lee Dickinson's cat, Little Ricky, outside Emily Dickinson's home in Amherst, Massachusetts:
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