HCL (B 24): etext transcription

This letter was sent to Susan Dickinson in the 1880s (Smith and Hart), possibly in 1883 (THJ). The allusion to Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii.225–26) appears, altered, in both a letter to Edward (Ned) Dickinson, HCL B 118, composed in late 1885 (THJ), and in a fragment, A 249 / 250, possibly composed in 1883 (RWF). At some point, perhaps during the editing of Face to Face (1932), the signature on the letter to Ned Dickinson was torn away and physically associated with this letter to Susan Dickinson. Small amounts of what appears to be glue or paste residue on HCL B 24 may indicate that this letter was pasted into a letter album. The verso of the manuscript (not reproduced here) is addressed, by Dickinson, "Susan -."