The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson by Dickinson, Emily; R.W. Franklin - 1986

Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, 1986. Paperback. First edition, 1986, second printing. Fine paperback with a hint of rubbing to the tips with the facsimile letters in an envelope laid-in. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. "These three letters, which Emily Dickinson drafted to a man she called 'Master,' stand near the heart of her mystery. In the week following Dickinson's death on May 15, 1886, Lavinia Dickinson found what she described as a locked box containing seven hundred of her sister's poems. The Master letters may have been among them, for they were clearly not with the correspondence, which Lavinia destroyed upon discovery. This publication presents the three letters in chronological order, based upon new dating of the manuscripts, and provides their texts in facsimile as well as in transcriptions that show stages in the composition of each letter." Edited by R.W. Franklin. 48 pages; 16 b&w plates + text illustrations; 7 x 10.5 inches.