Through the magic of technology, you too can peruse images of Emily Dickinson's handwritten poetry drafts from the comfort of your library, classroom or home sofa. Thanks to cooperation between such storied institutions as the Library of Congress, Harvard University, Amherst College, Yale, Smith, and the public libraries of Boston and New York City (along with other partners) the Emily Dickinson Archives is open online for all.
This is a draft of the poem with the opening line: I'm nobody! Who are you?
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there 's a pair of us don't tell!
They 'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
One of the fabulous outcomes of the digital world of information is equitable access to far flung primary source documents such as Dickinson's handwritten manuscripts..
Photo by Warrick Wynne
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