"Nature" is what we see – | Affiliated Manuscripts

H 293 (Fr721A)

ca. 1863, summer

Ink | Fair copy

On gilt-edged stationery, embossed PARIS

Poem-message sent to Susan Gilbert Dickinson.
′′Nature′′ is what
we see –
The Hill – the
Afternoon –
Squirrel – Eclipse –
the Bumble bee –
Nay – Nature is
Heaven –
Nature is what
we hear –
The Bobolink –
the Sea –
 
Recipient

Lucretia Gunn Dickinson Bullard (b. 1806–d. 1885)

Dickinson’s paternal aunt.

Inclusive dates of correspondence: 1864. Letters, 3; poems, 2.