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Placement of H 157, 2nd StanzaAs noted before in the Manuscript Books, on p 555, the second entry has (443) in the margin. This is the number assigned by Thomas H. Johnson to the poem "I tie my Hat - I crease my Shawl."
"According to Mr. Johnson, sheet H 157 ... forms the conclusion to "I tie my Hat - I crease my Shawl" (443 J)" (Franklin E40). "As corroborative evidence for linking "I tie my Hat" and H 157, Mr. Johnson cites the fact that "Mrs. Bingham published the last nine lines [H 157], arranged as two quatrains, as the two final stanzas of "I tie my Hat," in New England Quarterly, XX (1947), 34-35, from a transcript made by her mother. Thus at the time Mrs. Todd saw the manuscript, the two sheets were in their correct order in packet 29.[note 80]"(qtd in Franklin, E42). In the following quote note that ALL (both stanzas) of H 157 is intended to be applied. "As corroborative evidence for linking "I tie my Hat" and H 157, Mr. Johnson cites the fact that "Mrs. Bingham published the last nine lines [H 157], arranged as two quatrains, as the two final stanzas of "I tie my Hat," in New England Quarterly, XX (1947), 34-35, from a transcript made by her mother. Thus at the time Mrs. Todd saw the manuscript, the two sheets were in their correct order in packet 29.[note 80]"(qtd in Franklin, E42). That the two stanzas are to be considered two separate entities see Franklin commenting on Bianchi or Franklin on Emily Dickinson's habits and end-lines. The article referred to by Johnson, by Millicent Todd Bingham's in the New England Quarterly, sought to correct what she felt was an error on the part of Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson in their version of "I tie my Hat" (Further Poems). [View Further Poems, page 180] | ||||