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“The way Hope builds his House” by Emily Dickinson.
Amherst Library recently made her complete manuscripts available online.

“The way Hope builds his House” by Emily Dickinson.

Amherst Library recently made her complete manuscripts available online.

(Source: consecratedeminence.wordpress.com)

Happy Birthday, E.*
*The ‘E’ on this name-plate is probably ‘Edward,’ Emily Dickinson’s father.

Happy Birthday, E.*

*The ‘E’ on this name-plate is probably ‘Edward,’ Emily Dickinson’s father.

(Source: oasis.lib.harvard.edu)

Susan Howe on the Telepathy of Archives:

“In research libraries and collections, we may capture the portrait of history in so-called insignificant visual and verbal textualities and textiles. In material details. In twill fabrics, bead-work pieces, pricked patterns, tiny spangles, sharp toothed stencil-wheels; in quotations, thought-fragments, inscriptions, endangered phonemes, even soils and stains.”

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