The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

The essential difficulty in presenting a Life of Emily Dickinson has been enhanced by the sacred pact observed with her chosen few, that all letters should be burned after her death. This excludes exactly those which might have held together the frail external incidents of her days , which seem so scantily supplied to those ignorant of the thronging events of the Spirit which eternally preoccupied her. This present record is made up from family letters hitherto withheld, deathless recollections , and many sentences overheard from her own lips and scrupulously set down as too unique to he squandered upon the passing moment. The Letters formerly printed have now been chronologically arranged , and as far as of intrinsic value , retained;