figure 10: A 757, c. 1878. Lines penciled on a fragment of cream, blue‑ruled notebook paper, approximately 101 x 101 mm. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

figure 9: A 759, c 1880. Lines penciled on a strip of brown wrapping paper, approximately 50 x 192 mm. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

figure 8: A 754, c. 1880. Lines penciled in the margins of a legal form, approximately 73 x 69 mm. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

figure 7: A 359, c. 1880. Lines penciled on a scrap of white, blue‑ruled stationery, approximately 76 x 56 mm. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

figure 6: A 255. Pen slashes on a fragment of stationery containing lines from “After all | Birds have | been investigated.”  Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

 
figure 5:  “I play at Riches – to appease,” variants. MB II, fascicle 38, c. 1863.  Reproduced by permission of the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

figure 4: “I think to Live – may be a | + Bliss --,” variants. MB II, fascicle 34, c. 1862.  Reproduced by permission of the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

 
figure 3: A 239, c 1874. “I send you a / decrepit flower.” Written upside down on the flyleaf of Edward Dickinson’s copy of Irving’s Sketchbook. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Archives & Special Collections.

 
figure 2. A 287, c. 1884. A fragment of a fair copy pencil draft on a scrap of wove, white stationery, 21 x 126 mm. Reproduced courtesy of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Special Collections.

A 132a. 2 March 1884. A fragment of a fair copy pencil draft on a leaf of laid, off‑white stationery watermarked Pure Irish Linen F. H. D. & Co. Reproduced courtesy of the Trustees of the Amherst College Library, Special Collections.