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Purchased for an undisclosed sum from Alfred Leete Hampson, the papers have been kept by the poet's family in Amherst since her death in 1886. Along with the poems, the collection contains letters by and to Miss Dickinson, many of her books and possessions, and family papers accumulated since the arrival of the first Dickinson in the United States...
According to William A. Jackson, Assistant Librarian in charge of the Houghton Library, many of the accepted versions of Miss Dickinson's poems will be changed. "Some of the favorite poems will be altered," he commented, since her poetry has never before been edited...
Thomas H. Johnson '28, co-author of the "Literary History of the United States," who has been named editor of the papers by the University, pointed out that much of Miss Dickinson's poetry was published under family editing, and that whole sentences have been extracted in order not to offend people...
...added that one of the important effects of the collection will be to clear up the confusion which now exists as to the order in which Miss Dickinson's poems were written. A biography will probably be possible in three or four years, once a clear chronological pattern of her poetry-and thus of her emotional development-has been established...
...Dickinson collection will go on exhibition in Houghton Library next June. During the year papers will be sorted an darranged...