Emily Dickinson, Amherst, Mass., autograph manuscript poem: She laid her docile Crescent down, 1877

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Title:
Emily Dickinson, Amherst, Mass., autograph manuscript poem: She laid her docile Crescent down, 1877
Author:
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Date:
1877
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Poetry
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Manuscripts (America)
Subjects:
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Death
Extent:
1 item (1 sheet)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/kh04mx392
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger and partially from the first line of the poem.
This poem was enclosed in a letter to T. W. Higginson, August 1877 (Ms. Am. 1093 (83), BPL Higginson number 73.)
Notes (acquisition):
Donated to the Boston Public Library by Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1911.
Notes (date):
Date from Johnson Poem 1396.
Notes (citation):
References: Johnson, Thomas H., "The Poems of Emily Dickinson." (Cambridge, Mass., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1955): Poem 1396.
Accession #:
Ms. Am. 1093 (85)
Identifier:
BPL Higginson number: 34