figure 21: The envelope accompanying letter‑fragment A 740. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

figure 20: A 740c, c.  1878 or 1879. A cut leaf from a fair-copy pencil draft composed on parts of 5 sheets of wove, white stationery watermarked Weston’s Linen 1876. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

figure 19: A 741b, c. 1881 or 1882. A torn leaf from a letter‑fragment composed on laid, off‑white stationery, approximately 80 x 127 mm. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

figure 18: Verso of A 80‑9, c. 1858. A torn leaf of stationery containing lines from “One Sister have I in our house.” The lines have been heavily canceled in ink. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

figure 17: A 340a, c. 1881. Lines penciled on a partial sheet of white, wove stationery watermarked WESTON’S LINEN 1876, approximately 203 x 125 mm. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

figure 16: A 760, c. last decade. A pencil draft on a partial leaf of laid, off-white stationery embossed  [ORIEN]T, approximately 100 x 125 mm. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

 
figure 15: Jen Bervin, from the Dickinson Quilts. Reproduced by permission of the artist.

figure 13: A 871, c. last decade. “Spirit cannot be | moved by Flesh –”. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

figure 12: A 750. About 1883. Lines penciled on a partial leaf of laid, off-white stationery watermarked Pure Irish Linen F. H. D. & Co., approximately 153 x 132 mm. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

figure 11: A 746, c. 1880 or 1882. Lines penciled on a partial leaf of wove, off-white stationery, approximately 89 x 123 mm. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.