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CONTENTS
xxxiii Preface to the First Editionxliv Preface to the Third Edition
Colonial Period: to 1700 1
21 Native American Oral Literatures
24 Native American Oral Narrative
27 Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni)41 Changing Woman and the Hero Twins after the Emergence of the
People (Navajo)54 Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe (Lakota)56 The Origin of Stories (Seneca)59 Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Iroquois)62 Raven and Marriage (Tlingit)67 Raven Makes a Girl Sick and Then Cures Her (Tsimshian)69 The Bungling Host (Hitchiti)
70 Native American Oral Poetry74 Zuni Poetry74 Sayatasha’s Night Chant93 Aztec Poetry93 The Singer’s Art95 Two Songs95 Like Flowers Continually Perishing (by Ayocuan)97 Inuit Poetry97 Song (Copper Eskimo)97 Moved (by Uvavnuk, Iglulik Eskimo)98 Improvised Greeting (Takomaq, Iglulik Eskimo)98 Widow’s Song (Quernertoq, Copper Eskimo)99 My Breath (Orpingalik, Netsilik Eskimo)
102 A Selection of Poems102 Deer Hunting Song (Virsak Vai-i, O’odham)102 Love Song (Aleut)103 Song of Repulse to a Vain Lover (To’ak, Makah)103 A Dream Song (Annie Long Tom, Clayoquot)
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104 Woman’s Divorce Dance Song (Jane Green)
104 Formula to Secure Love (Cherokee)
105 Formula to Cause Death (A’yunini the Swimmer, Cherokee)
106 Song of War (Blackfeet)
107 War Song (Crow)
107 Song of War (Odjib’we, Anishinabe)
108 War Song (Young Doctor, Makah)
108 Song of Famine (Holy-Face Bear, Dakota)
109 Song of War (Two Shields, Lakota)
109 Song of War (Victoria, Tohona O’odham)
110 Cultures in Contact: Voices from the Imperial Frontier
115 “Creation of the Whites” (Yuchi)
116 Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
117 from Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
125 from Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500
128 Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490P-1556?)
from Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
130 from Chapter VII: The Character of the Country
131 from Chapter VIII: We Go from Aute
133 from Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians
133 from Chapter XI: Of What Befel Lope de Oviedo with the Indians
134 from Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
135 from Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country
136 from Chapter XXVII: We Moved Away and Were Well Received
137 from Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer
138 from Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians
139 from Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians
140 A Gentleman of Elvas (fl. 1537-1557)
from The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida
141 Chapter VIII: Of some inrodes that were made into the countrie
142 Chapter IX: How this Christian came to the land of Florida
145 René Goulaine de Laudonnière (fl. 1562-1582)
145 from A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by
Certaine French Captaines unto Florida
147 Pedro Menéndez de Aviles (1519-1574)
148 from Letter to Philip II (October 15, 1565)
153 from To a Jesuit Friend (October 15, 1566)
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156 Fray Marcos de Niza (1495P-1542)
156 from A Relation of the Reverend Father Fray Marcos de Niza,Touching His Discovery of the Kingdom of Ceuola or Cibola
159 Pedro de Casteneda (1510?—1570?)
from The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado160 Chapter XXI: Of how the army returned to Tiguex and the general
reached Quivira
162 Gaspar Perez de Villagra (1555-1620)
from The History of New Mexico163 from Canto I: Which sets forth the outline of the history165 Canto XXX: How the new General. . . went to take leave of Luzcoija, and
the battle he had with the Spaniards
173 Samuel de Champlain (1570?—1635)
from The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618173 from The Voyages to the Great River St. Lawrence, 1608-1612: An
Encounter with the Iroquois177 from The Voyages of 1615: Champlain, Among the Huron, Lost in the
Woods
179Cultures in Contact: Voices from the Anglo-Americans’“New” World
182 Handsome Lake (Seneca)
182 How America Was Discovered
184 John Smith (1580-1631)
from The Generali Historic of Virginia, New-England, and theSummer Isles
from Book III186 from Chapter 2: [Smith as captive at the court of Powhatan in 1608]188 from Chapter 8: [Smith’s Journey to Pamaunkee]192 from A Description of New England [Appeal for settlers to plant a
colony in New England]
from Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New-England, or Anywhere, Or the Path-way to Experience to Erect aPlantation [Review of the colonies planted in New England andVirginia]
195 from Chapters 1, 2, 3, 9
199 Edward Maria Wingfield (1560P-1613?)
200 from A Discourse of Virginia [Here Followeth What Happened inJames Town]
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207 Richard Frethorne (fl. 1623)
208 from Richard Frethorne, to His Parents (Virginia, 1623)
211 Thomas Morton (1579?—1647?)
from New English Canaanfrom Book I: Containing the originall of the Natives, their manners &Customes, with their tractable nature and love towards the English.
212 from Chapter IV: Of their Houses and Habitations.213 from Chapter VI: Of the Indians apparrell.213 Chapter VIII: Of their Reverence, and respect to age.214 Chapter XVI: Of their acknowledgment of the Creation, and immortality
of the Soule.215 from Chapter XX: That the Salvages live a contended life.
from Book III: Containing a description of the People that are plantedthere, what remarkable Accidents have happened there . . . , what Tenentsthey hould, together with the pracdse of their Church.
216 from Chapter I: Of a great League made with the Plimmouth Plantersafter their arrivall, by the Sachem of those Territories.
216 from Chapter V: Of a Massacre made upon the Salvages at Wessaguscus.217 from Chapter VII: Of Thomas Mortons entertainement at Plimmouth,
and castinge away upon an Island.218 from Chapter XIV: Of the Revells of New Canaan.219 Chapter XV: Of a great Monster supposed to be at Ma-re-Mount; and
the preparation made to destroy it.222 Chapter XVI: How the 9. worthies put mine Host of Ma-re-Mount into
the inchaunted Castle at Plimmouth, and terrified him with the MonsterBriareus.
223 John Winthrop (1588-1649)226 from A Modell of Christian Charity234 John Winthrop s Christian Experience239 from The Journal of John Winthrop
245 William Bradford (1590-1657)
from Of Plymouth Plantationfrom Book I
247 from Chapter I: The Separatist Interpretation of the Reformation inEngland 1550-1607
248 from Chapter IX: Of their Voyage, and how they Passed the Sea; and oftheir Safe Arrival at Cape Cod
from Book II250 from Chapter XI: The Remainder of Anno 1620 [The Mayflower
Compact, The Starving Time, Indian Relations]253 from Chapter XIV: Anno Domini 1623 [End of the “Common Course
and Condition”]254 from Chapter XIX: Anno Domini 1628 [Thomas Morton of
Merrymount]
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258 from Chapter XXIII: Anno Domini 1632 [Prosperity Brings Dispersal ofPopulation]
259 from Chapter XXVIII: Anno Domini 1637 [The Pequot War]260 from Chapter XXIX: Anno Domini 1638 [Great and Fearful
Earthquake]261 from Chapter XXXII: Anno Domini 1642 [Wickedness Breaks Forth]263 from Chapter XXXIII: Anno Domini 1643 [The Life and Death of Elder
Brewster, The New England Confederation and the Narragansetts]266 from Chapter XXXIV: Anno Domini 1644 [Proposal to Remove to
Nauset]
267 Roger Williams (1603P-1683)from A Key into the Language of America
269 [Preface]: To my Deare and Welbeloved Friends and Countreymen, in oldand new England
274 Chapter XX: Of their nakednesse and clothing276 from Chapter XXI: Of Religion, the soule, See.282 Chapter XXIX: Of Their Warre, &c.287 To the Town of Providence: Testimony of Roger Williams relative to
his first coming into the Narrangansett country
289 Anne Bradstreet (1612?—1672)291 The Prologue [To Her Book]293 The Author to Her Book293 To Her Father with Some Verses294 Contemplations302 The Flesh and the Spirit305 Before the Birth of One of Her Children306 To My Dear and Loving Husband306 A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment307 In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659309 In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who
Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half Old310 On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16
November, 1669, being but a Month, and One Day Old311 Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666312 To My Dear Children
315 Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705)317 from The Day of Doom
326 The Bay Psalm Book (1640), The New England Primer(1683?)from The Bay Psalm Book
329 from “The Preface” by John Cotton331 Psalms 1,6, 8,19,23, 100, 137
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from The New England Primer
337 Alphabet
338 The Dutiful Child’s Promises
338 Verses
339 The Death of John Rogers
340Mary White Rowlandson (1637 ?—1711)
343 from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. MaryRowlandson
366 Edward Taylor (1642P-1729)
from The Psalm Paraphrases
371 Version 1. Psalm 1
372 Version 2. Psalm 19
from Gods Determinations
373 The Preface
375 The Souls Groan to Christ for Succour
376 Christs Reply
380 Some of Satans Sophestry
3 83 The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly attended
from Occasional Poems
384 2. Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
385 4. Fluswifery
386 6. Upon Wedlock, & Death of Children
388 7. The Ebb & Flow
from Preparatory Meditations, First Series
388 Prologue
390 [6.] Another Meditation at the same time.
391 8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51.1 am the Living Bread.
from Preparatory Meditations, Second Series
392 1. Meditation. Col. 2.17. Which are Shaddows of things to come and the
body is Christs.393 Meditation 26. Heb. 9.13. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ,
etc.
395 Meditation 43. Rom. 9.5. God blessed forever.
397 50. Meditation. Joh. 1.14. Full of Truth.
398 60[B]. Meditation. Cor. 10.4. And all drunk the same spirituall drinke.
400 115. Meditation. Cant. 5:10. My Beloved.
from A Valediction to all the World preparatory for Death 3 d of the
ll m 1720, Version 1
402 Cant. 3. Valediction, to the Terraqueous Globe
404 Cant. 4. A Suite to Christ here upon
406 A Fig for thee Oh! Death, Version 2
408 Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)
410 from The Diary of Samuel Sewall
413 The Selling of Joseph, A Memorial
418 My Verses upon the New Century [Jan. 1, 1701]
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419 Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
from The Wonders of the Invisible World421 [The Devil Attacks the People of God]423 V. The Trial of Martha Carrier at The Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by
Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692,from Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England
425 from A General Introduction428 Galeacius Secundus: The Life of William Bradford, Esq., Governor of
Plymouth Colony434 from The Triumphs of the Reformed Religion in America: Or, The Life of
the Renowned John Eliot441 from The Negro Christianized447 from Bonifacius. . , . With Humble Proposals. . . . to Do Good in the
World
449 John Williams (1664-1729)
451 from The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion
460 A Selection of Seventeenth-Century Poetry
461 Edward Johnson (1599-1672)461 Poem for Thomas Hooker
462 John Saffin (1626-1710)462 Acrostic on Mrs. Winifret Griffin
463 George Alsop (1636P-1673?)
463 Trafique is Earth’s Great Atlas
463 Sarah Whipple Goodhue (1641-1681)
463 Lines to Her Family
464 Benjamin Tompson (1642-1714)464 Chelmsfords Fate
465 Richard Steere (1643P-1721)
465 On a Sea-Storm nigh the Coast
466 Anna Tompson Hayden (1648-1720)
466 Upon the Death of Elizabeth Tompson
468 Elizabeth Sowle Bradford (1663 P—1731)
468 To the Reader, in Vindication of this Book
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469 Bathsheba Bowers (1672P-1718)
469 Lines from the Spiritual Autobiography
469 Roger Wolcott (1679-1767)
469 Psalm 64:6—“The heart is deep”
470 Mary French (1687?-?)
470 from A Poem Written by a Captive Damsel
472Tales of Incorporation, Resistance, and Reconquestin New Spain
474 History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in1531
482 Don Antonio de Otermin (fl. 1680)
483 Letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
491 The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi)
495 Don Diego de Vargas (?—1704)
496 from Letter on The Reconquest of New Mexico, 1692
Eighteenth Century 503
527 Tradition and Change in Anglo-America
529 Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)
531 The Journal of Madam Knight
548 William Byrd II (1674-1744)
550 from The History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North
Carolina and The Secret History of the Line
568 Letter to Mrs. Jane Pratt Taylor (October 10, 1735)
569 Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
572 Resolutions
577 from A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God
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581 Personal Narrative592 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
604 Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)605 from Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth
Ashbridge,. . . Written by her own Hand many years ago
616 John Woolman (1720-1772)619 from The Journal of John Woolman630 from Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
636 A Selection of Eighteenth-Century Poetry
640 Ebenezer Cook (1667-1733)641 The Sot-weed Factor; or, a Voyage to Maryland, &c.
658 Richard Lewis (1700P-1734)659 A Journey from Patapsko to Annapolis, April 4,1730
668 William Dawson (1704-1752)668 To Sylvia, on Approach of Winter669 Anacreontic
669 Jane Coleman Turell (1708-1735)670 [Lines on Childbirth]
670 Bridget Richardson Fletcher (1726-1770)671 Hymn XXXVI: The Greatest Dignity of a Woman, Christ Being Born
of One671 Hymn LXX: The Duty of Man and Wife
673 Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)673 To a Young Lady674 To Mrs. Montague, Author of “Observations on the Genius and
Writings of Shakespeare” ‘
675 Lucy Terry (1730-1821)676 Bars Fight
676 Thomas Godfrey (1736-1763)677 A Dithyrambic on Wine679 A Night-Piece
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682 Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801)
682 To Laura
683 Epistle, To Lucius
684 A Poetical Epistle, Addressed by a Lady of New Jersey, to Her Niece,
upon Her Marriage
687 The Vision, an Ode to Washington
688 Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801)
689 An Ode Written on the Birthday of Mr. Henry Fergusson
690 On a Beautiful Damask Rose, Emblematical of Love and Wedlock
691 On the Mind’s Being Engrossed by One Subject
692 Milcah Martha Moore (1740-1829)
692 The Female Patriots. Address’d to the Daughters of Liberty in
America, 1768
693 Nathaniel Evans (1742-1767)
693 Hymn to May
695 Ode to My Ingenious Friend
697 Ode to the Memory of Mr. Thomas Godfrey
698 To Benjamin Franklin, Occasioned by Hearing Him Play on theHarmonica
699 Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752-1783)
700 Written in the Retreat from Burgoyne
701 On the Immensity of Creation
702 Anna Young Smith (1756-1780)
702 An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers,. . .
April 19,1775
704 Sarah Wentworth Morton (1759-1846)
705 Stanzas to a Husband Recently United706 The African Chief
708 Ode Inscribed to Mrs. M. Warren
709 Memento, for My Infant Who Lived But Eighteen Hours
710 Poems Published Anonymously
710 The Lady’s Complaint
710 Verses Written by a Young Lady, on Women Born to Be Controll’d
711 The Maid’s Soliloquy
712 Impromptu, on Reading an Essay on Education. By a Lady
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714Enlightenment Voices, Revolutionary Visions
717 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
720 from Poor Richard’s Almanacks724 The Way to Wealth730 A Witch Trial at Mount Holly731 The Speech of Polly Baker733 A Narrative of the Late Massacres745 An Edict by the King of Prussia748 The Ephemera, an Emblem of Human Life749 Inf ormation to Those Who Would Remove to America754 Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America758 On the Slave-Trade760 Speech in the Convention
from The Autobiography762 Part One [Twyford, at the Bishop of St. Asaph’s, 1771]810 Part Two [Continuation of the Account of My Life Begun at Passy, 1784]
819 James Grainger (1721?—1766)
from The Sugar Cane821 Book IV: The Genius of Africa
841 John Leacock (1729-1802)
from The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times843 from Chapter 3: Obadiah (John Hancock) challenges the Gageite (Thomas
Gage)844 from Chapters 3 and 4: Jedediah the Priest (Rev. Samuel Cooper), with
Mother Carey’s aid, speaks with the ghost of Oliver Cromwell847 from The Fall of British Tyranny; Or, American Liberty Triumphant:
Song, The First of May, to St. Tammany
849 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
from Letters from an American Farmer851 from Letter II: On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American
Farmer854 from Letter III: What Is an American?859 from Letter IX: Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on
Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene866 from Letter XII: Distresses of a Frontier Man
882 Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
from Common Sense884 Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
from The American Crisis890 Number 1
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from The Age of Reason
896 Chapter I: The Author’s Profession of Faith
897 from Chapter II: Of Missions and Revelations
899 from Chapter III: Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His
History
900 from Chapter VI: Of the True Theology
902 John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744—1818)
904 from Autobiography of John Adams
905 Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776
906 Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776
906 from Letter from John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, April 16, 1776
907 from Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3,1776
909 Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, June 30, 1778
910 Abigail Adams’s Diary of Her Return Voyage to America, March
30-May 1, 1788
912 from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, September 2,1813
913 from Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, October 28, 1813
913 from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 15,1813
916 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
from Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
919 A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in
General Congress Assembled
from Notes on the State of Virginia
923 from Query VI: Productions, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal, Buffon and
the Theory of Degeneracy
929 from Query XI: Aborigines, Original Condition and Origin
932 from Query XIV: Laws
937 from Query XVII: Religion
939 from Query XVIII: Manners . . . Effect of Slavery
940 from Letter to James Madison, Oct. 28, 1785
941 from Letter to James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787
944 Letter to Benjamin Banneker, Aug. 30,1791
945 Letter to the Marquis de Condorcet, Aug. 30, 1791
946 Letter to Edward Coles, Aug. 25, 1814
948 Patriot and Loyalist Songs and Ballads
“Patriot” Voices
949 The Liberty Song
951 Alphabet
952 The King’s own Regulars, And their Triumphs over the Irregulars.
954 The Irishman’s Epistle to the Officers and Troops at Boston
955 The Yankee’s Return from Camp
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957 Nathan Hale
959 Sir Harry’s Invitation
960 Volunteer Boys
“Loyalist” Voices
962 When Good Queen Elizabeth Governed the Realm
963 Song, for a Fishing Party near Burlington, on the Delaware, in 1776
964 Burrowing Yankees
965 A Birthday Song, for the King’s Birthday, June 4, 1777
966 A Song
966 An Appeal
968Contested Boundaries, National Visions: Writings on“Race,” Identity, and “Nation”
972 Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?)
974 An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries
976 An Address to Miss Phillis WheatlyLzc], Ethiopian Poetess, in
Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became
acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
979 Samson Occom (Mohegan) (1723-1792)
981 A Short Narrative of My Life
987 A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom
1002 Briton Hammon (fl. 1760)
1004 Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance ofBriton Hammon
1008 Prince Hall (1735P-1807)
1010 To the Honorable Council & House of Representatives for the State
of Massachusetts-Bay in General Court assembled January 13th 1777.
1011 A Charge, Delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797, at
Menotomy.
1018 Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or
Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself.
1019 from Chapter 1
1027 Chapter 2
1037 from Chapter 3
1042 from Chapter 7
1044 from Chapter 10
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1050 Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
1052 Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-
Complacency, especially in Female Bosoms
1055 On the Domestic Education of Children
1058 On the Equality of the Sexes
1065 Occasional Epilogue to The Contrast, a Comedy, Written by Royal
Tyler, Esq.
1067 Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
1069 The Power of Fancy
1073 A Political Litany
1074 To Sir Toby
1076 The Hurricane
1077 The Wild Honey Suckle
1078 To An Author
1080 On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature
1081 On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple
1082 The Indian Burying Ground
1083 On the Causes of Political Degeneracy
1086 Timothy Dwight (1752-1817)
from Greenfield Hill
1087 Part II: The Flourishing Village
1091 from Part IV: The Destruction of the Pequods
1095 Phillis Wheadey (1753-1784)
1097 To Maecenas
1098 Letter to the Right Hon’ble The Earl of Dartmouth per favour
of Mr. Wooldridge
1099 To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c
1100 Letter to the Rt. Hon’ble the Countess of Huntingdon
1101 On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 17701103 On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall 1771
1104 On Being Brought from Africa to America
1104 On Imagination
1106 To the University of Cambridge, in New England
1107 Philis’s [r/c] Reply to the Answer in our Last by the Gentleman
in the Navy
1108 To His Excellency General Washington
1110 Liberty and Peace, A Poem by Phillis Peters
1112 Letter to Samson Occom, Feb. 11, 1774
1112 Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833)
1115 Liberty Further Extended: Or Free Thoughts on the Illegality
of Slave-keeping1124 Universal Salvation
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1128 Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
1130 The Prospect of Peace1135 The Hasty Pudding, A Poem, in Three Cantos1145 Advice to a Raven in Russia, December, 1812
1147 Royall Tyler (1757-1826)
1148 The Contrast, A Comedy in Five Acts
1188 Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican) (1757-1830)
1190 from A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Contry
1194 Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)
from The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza Wharton1196 Letter I: To Miss Lucy Freeman1197 Letter II: To the Same1198 Letter III: To the Same1199 Letter IV: To Mr. Selby1200 Letter V: To Miss Lucy Freeman1201 Letter VI: To the Same1202 Letter VIII: To Mr. Charles Deighton1203 Letter XI: To Mr. Charles Deighton1204 Letter XII: To Miss Lucy Freeman1205 Letter XIII: To Miss Eliza Wharton1206 Letter XVIII: To Mr. Charles Deighton1207 Letter LXV: To Mr. Charles Deighton1208 Letter LXVIII: To Mrs. M. Wharton1210 Letter LXXI: To Mrs. Lucy Sumner1212 Letter LXXII: To Mr. Charles Deighton1213 Letter LXXIII: To Miss Julia Granby1214 Letter LXXIV: To Mrs. M. Wharton
1215 Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762-1824)
from Charlotte Temple1217 from Preface1218 from Chapter I: A Boarding School1219 Chapter VI: An Intriguing Teacher1221 from Chapter VII: Natural Sense of Propriety Inherent in the Female Bosom1223 from Chapter IX: We Know Not What A Day May Bring Forth1224 from Chapter XII: [How thou art fall’n!]1226 from Chapter XIV: Maternal Sorrow
1226 Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
1228 Somnambulism, a fragment
1241 Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions
1243 The Federalist No. 6 (Alexander Hamilton)
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1248 The Federalist No. 10 (James Madison)
1253 An Anti-Federalist Paper, To the Massachusetts Convention
1257 Missionary Voices of the Southwest
1259 Fray Carlos José Delgado (1677-post 1750)
1261 Report made by Rev. Father Fray Carlos Delgado to our Rev. Father
Ximeno concerning the abominable hostilities and tyrannies of the
governors and alcaldes mayores toward the Indians, to the
consternation of the custodia. The year 1750.
1265 Francisco Palou (1723-1789)
from Life of Junípero Serra1266 from Chapter XXII: The Expeditions Arrive at the Port of Monterey—The
Mission and Presidio of San Carlos Are Founded1269 from Chapter LVIII: The Exemplary Death of the Venerable Father
Junípero
Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865 1275
1309 Myths, Tales, and Legends
1311 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwa) (1800-1841)
1312 Mishosha, or the Magician and His Daughters1317 The Forsaken Brother
1319 Tales from the Hispanic Southwest
1320 La comadre Sebastiana/Dona Sebastiana
1322 Los tres hermanos/The Three Brothers
1327 El obispo/The New Bishop
1327 El indito de las cien vacas/The Indian and the Hundred Cows
1328 La Llorona, Malinche, and Guadalupe
1330 La Llorona, Malinche, and the Unfaithful Maria1331 The Devil Woman
1332 Washington Irving (1783-1859)
from A History of New York
1334 Book I, Chapter 5
1342 Rip Van Winkle
1354 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Contents ■ xix
Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851)
She Would Be a Soldier
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
from The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna; A DescriptiveTale
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)
from Hope Leslie
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)MS. Found in a BottleLigeiaThe Fall of the House of UsherEleonoraThe Oval PortraitThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Tell-Tale HeartThe Purloined LetterSonnet—To ScienceRomanceIntroductionTo HelenIsrafelThe City in the SeaThe SleeperThe Valley of UnrestSonnet—SilenceDream-LandThe RavenUlalumeEldoradoAnnabel LeeAloneA Review: Twice-Told Tales. By Nathaniel HawthorneThe Philosophy of Composition
Humor of the Old Southwest
Davy Crockett (1786-1836)
Mike Fink (1770P-1823?)
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870)
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1537George Washington Harris (1814-1869)
from The Crockett Almanacs
1542 Sunrise in His Pocket
1542 A Pretty Predicament
1544 Crocketts Daughters
1545 Mike Fink’s Brag
1545 Mike Fink Trying to Scare Mrs. Crockett
1546 Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns
1547 The Death of Mike Fink (Joseph M. Field)
from Georgia Scenes (Longstreet)
1550 The Horse Swap
from Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a “Nat’ral Born Durn’d Fool.”
Warped and Wove for Public Wear. (Harris)
1555 Mrs. Yardley’s Quilting
1561Explorations of an “American” Self
1562 George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh; Ojibwa) (1818-1869)
1564 from The Life of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh
1578 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
1582 Nature
1609 The American Scholar
1622 Self-Reliance
1638 Circles
1646 The Poet
1661 Experience
1677 Concord Hymn1677 The Rhodora
1678 The Snow-Storm
1679 Compensation
1680 Ode, Inscribed to W.H. Channing
1683 Hamatreya1685 Merlin
1688 Brahma
1689 Days
1689 Terminus
1690 Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
1693 To [Sophia Ripley?]
1696 A Short Essay on Critics
1700 from Summer on the Lakes
1714 from Woman in the Nineteenth Century
1735 from American Literature; Its Position in the Present Time, andProspects for the Future
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from Things and Thoughts in Europe, Foreign Correspondenceof the Tribune
1742 Dispatch 17
1747 Dispatch 18
1751Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
1754 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave1818 What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
1837Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897)
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl1839 Chapter I: Childhood
1842 Chapter VI: The Jealous Mistress
1846 Chapter X: A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life
1849 Chapter XVI: Scenes at the Plantation
1855 Chapter XXI: The Loophole of Retreat
1858 Chapter XLI: Free at Last1863 Harriet Jacobs to Ednah Dow Cheney, April 25, 1867
1865 Issues and Visions in Pre-Civil War America
1866 Indian Voices
1866 William Apess (Pequot) (1798-?)
1868An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man
1873 John Wannuaucon Quinney (Mahican) (1797-1855)
1875 Quinney ’s Speech
1878 Elias Boudinot (Cherokee) (c. 1802-1839)
1880 An Address to the Whites
1887 Seattle (Duwamish) (1786-1866)
1888 Speech of Chief Seattle
1891 John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee) (1827-1867)
1892Oppression of Digger Indians
1893 The Atlantic Cable1896 The Stolen White Girl
1897 A Scene Along the Rio de la Plumas
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1899The Literature of Slavery and Abolition
1899 David Walker (1785-1830)
1901 from Appeal See.
1911 William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)
1913 from William Lloyd Garrison: The Story of His Life
1915 Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
from Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans1917 Preface
1918 Chapter VIII
Letters from New York
1919 #14: [Homelessness, 1842]
1923 #33: [Anti-abolitionist mobs, 1842]
1926 #50: Women’s Rights, 1843
1929 Slavery’s Pleasant Homes—A Faithful Sketch
1932 John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
1935 The Hunters of Men
1936 The Farewell
1938 Massachusetts to Virginia
1942 At Port Royal
1945 Angelina Grimke Weld (1805-1879)
1946 from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
from Letters to Catharine Beecher1954 Letter XI
1955 Letter XII: Human Rights Not Founded on Sex
1957 Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882)
1959 An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America, Buffalo,
N.Y., 1843
1965 Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
1967 from Toussaint L’Ouverture
1976 Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
1979 from Nat Turner’s Insurrection
1989 Letter to Mrs. Higginson on Emily Dickinson
1991 Caroline Lee Hentz (1800-1856)
1993 from The Planter’s Northern Bride
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2001 George Fitzhugh (1804-1881)2002 from Southern Thought
2011 Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886)2013 from Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
2020 Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)2022 Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery2023 Second Inaugural Address
2024 Literature and the “Woman Question”
2024 Sarah Moore Gritnke (1792-1873)from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman
2024 Letter VIII: The Condition of Women in the United States2028 Letter XV: Man Equally Guilty with Woman in the Fall
2031 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)2033 from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences2035 Declaration of Sentiments
2037 Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) (1811-1872)2038 Hints to Young Wives
from Fern Leaves, 1st Series2039 Thanksgiving Story
from Fern Leaves, 2nd Series2040 Soliloquy of a Housemaid2041 Apollo Hyacinth2042 Critics2043 Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the “Blue Stocking”2043 Independence2044 The Working-Girls of New York
2045 Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)2048 Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage of Sojourner Truth, for May
28-29,18512050 Speech at New York City Convention2051 Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights
Association
2053 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)2055 The Slave Mother2056 The Tennessee Hero2057 Free Labor2058 An Appeal to the American People
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2059 The Colored People in America
2061 Speech: On the Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of the American
Anti-Slavery Society
2063 The Two Offers
2070 Voices from the Southwest
2070 Juan Nepomuceno Seguin (1806-1890)
2071 from Personal Memoirs
2078 Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1808-1890)
2080 from Recuerdos históricos y personales tocante a la alta California [An
Account of the Gold Rush]
2090 A Concord Individualist
2090 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
2093 Resistance to Civil Government
from Walden
2107 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
2117 Higher Laws
2124 Spring2134 Conclusion
2142 A Plea for Captain John Brown
2157 Walking
2178 Letters to H. G. O. Blake: March 27, 1848; November 16, 1857
from The Journal
2184 Catching a Pig
2188 The Flowering of Narrative
2190 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
2194 My Kinsman, Major Molineux
2207 Young Goodman Brown
2216 The Minister’s Black Veil
2225 The Birth-mark
2236 Rappaccini’s Daughter
2256 The Artist of the Beautiful
The Scarlet Letter is available as a separately bound supplement to Volume 1 of
the Anthology.
2271 Preface to The House of the Seven Gables2272 Mrs. Hutchinson
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from Abraham Lincoln (March-April 1862)Letters
To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, June 4, 1837To Sophia Peabody, April 13, 1841To H.W. Longfellow, June 5, 1849ToJ.T. Fields, January 20, 1850To J.T. Fields, Undated draftTo H.W. Longfellow, January 2, 1864
Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)
from A New Home—Who’ll Follow?PrefacePreface to the Fourth EditionChapter IChapter XVChapter XVIIChapter XXVIIChapter XLIII
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
from Uncle Tom’s CabinChapter I: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of HumanityChapter VII: The Mother’s StruggleChapter XI: In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of MindChapter XIII: The Quaker SettlementChapter XIV: EvangelineChapter XXX: The Slave WarehouseChapter XL: The MartyrChapter XLI: The Young Master
from Preface to the First Illustrated Edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabinfrom Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowefrom The Minister’s Wooing
XXIII: Views of Divine GovernmentSojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibylfrom Oldtown Folks
VIII: Miss Asphyxia
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Bartleby, the Scrivenerfrom The Encantadas
Sketch Eighth: Norfolk Isle and the Chola WidowThe Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
I. The Paradise of BachelorsII. The Tartarus of Maids
Benito CerenoBilly Budd, Sailor
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2570 Hawthorne and His Mossesfrom
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
2583 The Portent (1859)
2583 A Utilitarian View of the Monitor’s Flightfrom Timoleon
2584 Monody
2585 Art
2585 William Wells Brown (1815-1884)
from Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine
2588 Chapter II: The Negro Sale
2590 Chapter X: The Quadroon’s Home
2591 Chapter XI: To-Day a Mistress, To-Morrow a Slave
2594 Chapter XVIII: A Slave-Hunting Parson
2597 Alice Cary (1820-1871)
from Clovernook, or, Recollections of Our Neighborhood in the West
2599 My Grandfatherfrom Clovernook, Second Series
2607 Uncle Christopher’s
2623 Elizabeth Stoddard (1823-1902)
2625 Lemorne Versus Huell
2638 Harriet E. Wilson (1827P—1863?)
from Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
2639 Chapter IV: A Friend for Nig
2643 Chapter X: Perplexities—Another Death
2646 Chapter XII: The Winding Up of the Matter
2648 The Emergence of American Poetic Voices
2651 Songs and Ballads
Songs of the Slaves
2653 Lay Dis Body Down
2653 Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Had
2654 Deep River
2654 Roll Jordan, Roll
2654 Michael Row the Boat Ashore
2655 Steal Away to Jesus
2655 There’s a Meeting Here To-Night
2656 Many Thousand Go
2656 Go Down, Moses
2657 Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
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Songs of White CommunitiesJohn Brown’s BodyThe Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe)Pat Works on the RailwaySweet Betsy from PikeBury Me Not on the Lone PrairieShenandoahClementineAcres of ClamsCindyPaper of PinsCome Home, Father (Henry Clay Work)Life Is a Toil
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
ThanatopsisThe Yellow VioletTo a WaterfowlTo Cole, the Painter, Departing for EuropeTo the Fringed GentianThe PrairiesAbraham Lincoln
Lydia Howard Hundey Sigourney (1791-1865)The SutteeDeath of an InfantThe FatherThe Indian’s Welcome to the Pilgrim FathersIndian NamesThe Needle, Pen, and SwordNiagaraTo a Shred of Linen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)A Psalm of LifeThe WarningThe Jewish Cemetery at NewportAftermathChaucerThe Harvest Moon
Frances Sargent Locke Osgood (1811-1850)
Ellen Learning to WalkThe Little HandOh! Hasten to My SideA Flight of Fancy
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2714 A Reply
2715 Lines (Suggested by the announcement that “A Bill for the Protection
of the Property of Married Women has passed both Houses” of our
State Legislature)
2716 Woman
2718 Alone
2719 Little Children
2720 To a Slandered Poetess
2722 The Indian Maid’s Reply to the Missionary
2723 The Hand That Swept the Sounding Lyre
2723 The Lady’s Mistake
2724 The Wraith of the Rose
2725 Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
from Leaves of Grass (1855 edition)
2729 Preface
2743 Song of Myself
2794 The Sleepers2802 There Was a Child Went Forth
from Inscriptions
2804 One’s-Self I Sing
from Children of Adam2804 To the Garden the World
2805 A Woman Waits for Me
from Calamus
2806 In Paths Untrodden
2807 Recorders Ages Hence
2808 When I Heard at the Close of the Day
2808 Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
2809 I Dream’d in a Dream
from Sea-Drift
2809 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking2814 As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
from By the Roadside
2817 Europe, the 72d and 73d Years of These States
2818 When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
2819 To a President
2819 The Dalliance of the Eagles2819 To the States
from Drum-Taps2820 Beat! Beat! Drums!
2821 Cavalry Crossing a Ford
2821 Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
2822 A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
2823 Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
2824 The Artilleryman’s Vision
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Ethiopia Saluting the ColorsReconciliationAs I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
from Memories of President LincolnWhen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
from Autumn RivuletsSparkles from the WheelPrayer of Columbus
from Whispers of Heavenly DeathQuicksand Years
from From Noon to Starry NightTo a Locomotive in Winter
from Songs of PartingSo Long!
from Sands at Seventy (First Annex)Yonnondio
from Good-bye My Fancy (Second Annex)Good-bye My Fancy!
Poem Deleted from heaves of GrassRespondez!
from Democratic Vistas (1871)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
14 [One Sister have I in our house,]21 [We lose—because we win—]49 [I never lost as much but twice,]67 [Success is counted sweetest]84 [Her breast is fit for pearls,]106 [The Daisy follows soft the Sun—]130 [These are the days when Birds come back—]211 [Come slowly—Eden! ]213 [Did the Harebell loose her girdle]219 [She sweeps with many-colored Brooms—]241 [I like a look of Agony,]249 [Wild Nights—Wild Nights!]252 [I can wade Grief—]258 [There’s a certain Slant of light,]271 [A solemn thing—it was—I said—]280 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,]285 [The Robin’s my Criterion for Tune—]288 [I’m Nobody! Who are you?]292 [If your Nerve, deny you—]293 [I got so I could hear his name—]299 [Your Riches—taught me—Poverty.]301 [I reason, Earth is short—]303 [The Soul selects her own Society—]
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2872 306 [The Soul’s Superior instants]
2873 308 [I send Two Sunsets—]
2873 311 [It sifts from Leaden Sieves—]
2874 315 [He fumbles at your Soul]
2874 322 [There came a Day at Summer’s full,]
2875 324 [Some keep the Sabbath going to Church—]
2876 327 [Before I got my eye put out]
2876 328 [A Bird came down the Walk—]
2877 338 [I know that He exists.]
2877 341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes—]
2878 348 [I dreaded that first Robin, so,]
2879 357 [God is a distant—stately Lover—]
2879 365 [Dare you see a Soul at the 'White Heat?]
2880 381 [A Secret told—]
2880 401 [What Soft—Cherubic Creatures—]
2880 435 [Much Madness is divinest Sense—]
2881 441 [This is my letter to the World]
2881 443 [I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl—]
2882 446 [I showed her Hights she never saw—]
2883 448 [This was a Poet—It is That]
2883 458 [Like Eyes that looked on Wastes—]
2884 465 [I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—]
2884 501 [This World is not Conclusion.]
2885 502 [At least—to pray—is left—is left—]
2885 5 08 [I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being Their’s—]
2886 512 [The Soul has Bandaged moments—]
2887 518 [Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night]
2887 520 [I started Early—Took my Dog—]
2888 553 [One Crucifixion is recorded—only—]
2888 556 [The Brain, within its Groove]
2889 564 [My period had come for Prayer—]
2889 569 [I reckon—when I count at all—]
2890 579 [I had been hungry, all the Years—]
2890 587 [Empty my Heart, of Thee—]
2891 593 [I think I was enchanted]
2892 599 [There is a pain—so utter—]
2892 612 [It would have starved a Gnat—]
2893 613 [They shut me up in Prose—]
2893 631 [Ourselves were wed one summer—dear—]
2894 632 [The Brain—is wider than the Sky—]
2894 640 [I cannot live with You—]
2896 657 [I dwell in Possibility—]
2896 664 [Of all the Souls that stand create—]
2896 668 [“Nature” is what we see—]
2897 669 [No Romance sold unto]
2897 670 [One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—]
2898 673 [The Love a Life can show Below]
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675 [Essential Oils—are wrung—]
686 [They say that “Time assuages”—]
696 [Their Hight in Heaven comforts not—]
704 [No matter—now—Sweet—]
709 [Publication—is the Auction]
712 [Because I could not stop for Death—]
721 [Behind Me—dips Eternity—]
732 [She rose to His Requirement—dropt]
742 [Four Trees—upon a solitary Acre—]
747 [It dropped so low—in my Regard—]
754 [My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—]
764 [Presentiment—is that long Shadow—on the Lawn—]
812 [A Light exists in Spring]
822 [This Consciousness that is aware]
883 [The Poets light but Lamps—]
959 [A loss of something ever felt I—]
974 [The Soul’s distinct connection]
985 [The Missing All, prevented Me]
986 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]
1071 [Perception of an object costs]
1072 [Title divine—is mine!]
1078 [The Bustle in a House]
1082 [Revolution is the Pod]
1100 [The last Night that She lived]
1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—]
1207 [He preached upon “Breadth” till it argued him narrow—]
1304 [Not with a Club, the Heart is broken]
1355 [The Mind lives on the Heart]
1400 [What mystery pervades a well!]
1453 [A Counterfeit—a Plated Person—]
1461 [“Heavenly Father”—take to thee]
1463 [A Route of Evanescence]
1545 [The Bible is an antique Volume—]
1583 [Witchcraft was hung, in History,]
1624 [Apparently with no surprise]
1651 [A Word made Flesh is seldom]
1670 [In Winter in my Room]
1695 [There is a solitude of space]
1705 [Volcanoes be in Sicily]
1719 [God is indeed a jealous God—]
1737 [Rearrange a “Wife’s” affection!]
1755 [To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,]Letters
To Abiah Root, 29 January 1850
To Austin Dickinson, 17 October 1851
To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson), late April 1852
To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson), 27 June 1852
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2923 To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson), late August 1854
2924 To Mrs. J. G. Holland, early August 1856?
2925 To Samuel Bowles, about February 1861
2925 To recipient unknown (“Master”), about 1861
2927 To Susan Gilbert Dickinson, date uncertain
2927 To T.W. Higginson, 15 April 1862
2928 To T.W. Higginson, 25 April 1862
2929 To T.W Higginson, 7 June 1862
2930 To Samuel Bowles, early summer 1862
2931 To T.W. Higginson, July 1862
2932 To Mrs. J.G. Holland, early May 1866
2932 To Susan Gilbert Dickinson, about 1870 (two notes)
2933 To T.W. Higginson, 1876
2933 To Oris P. Lord [rough draft], about 1878
2934 To Susan Gilbert Dickinson, about 1878
2934 To Mrs. J. Howard Sweetser, November 1882
2935 To Otis P. Lord, 3 December 1882
2935 To Susan Gilbert Dickinson, early October 1883
2936 To Susan Gilbert Dickinson, about 1884
2937 To T.W. Higginson, spring 1886
2938Permissions Acknowledgments
2941Index