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Dickinson, Emily.
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Description
- Dickinson, Emily.
autograph letter, signed "Your Cousin", to "Peter" [Perez Dickinson Cowan], offering consolation on the death of his sister, 3 pages, 8vo, [Amherst, 1869], paper slightly yellowed, split at folds professionally repaired, slightly frayed, discolouring at upper edge
If I could help you Peter, but no one can help a heart in pain except the one that pained it, often too futile or too far...I am sure she was lovely, because her sisters were. I am sure beloved, because the Lovely are, and now no more our own but the Holy Angel's, forgive me the sweet envy that obscures their right [sic]. Remember me with love to your living sisters, firmer secured to you I trust than herself that rose. And still in happiness or pain...
If I could help you Peter, but no one can help a heart in pain except the one that pained it, often too futile or too far...I am sure she was lovely, because her sisters were. I am sure beloved, because the Lovely are, and now no more our own but the Holy Angel's, forgive me the sweet envy that obscures their right [sic]. Remember me with love to your living sisters, firmer secured to you I trust than herself that rose. And still in happiness or pain...
Literature
The Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. T.H. Johnson, 3 volumes (1958); Polly Longsworth, "'Upon Concluded Lives': New Letters of Emily Dickinson", EDIS Bulletin, 7 (May/June 1995), pp.2-4