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Old pros in Dickinson scholarship, please forgive this note.  I've admired
Dickinson's poetry for 60 years, but have only recently begun immersion in ED
criticism, biography, and ecology of relationships.  I'm immersed about to my
calves.  Many of you have had full body baptism.  But I need to tell somebody,
and
this particular online family is the closest thing I have to a living room
salon.

Yesterday morning I received my copy of Judith Farr's novel _I Never Came To
You in White_.  Yesterday afternoon I read it, with great pleasure.  My slight
immersion permits me to know the major characters in the ED saga, as well as
many of the issues held in question, so Farr's novel was a lovely imaginative
leap, a "speculative summation" of  much that I had read, and it will continue
to be in my mind as I read further.  I was delighted, as well, with the beauty
of Farr's writing.  My next read will be Farr's _The Passion of  Emily
Dickinson_.

I am eager to know, however, how others respond to _I Never Came to You in
White_.  So, a word or two from here and there, perhaps?  Thanks.

Louis Forsdale