Emily Dickinson - Letter 368 (November 1871) T. W. Higginson lyrics

I did not read Mr Miller because I could not care about him - Transport is not urged - Mrs Hunt's Poems are stronger than any written by Women since Mrs - Browning, with the exception of Mrs Lewes - but truth like Ancestor's Brocades can stand alone - You speak of ''Men and Women.'' That is a broad Book - "Bells and Pomegranates" I never saw but have Mrs Browning's endorsement. While Shakespeare remains Literature is firm - An Insect cannot run away with Achilles' Head. Thank you for having written the ''Atlantic Essays.'' They are a fine Joy - though to possess the ingredient for Congratulation renders congratulation superfluous. Dear friend, I trust you as you ask - If I exceed permission, excuse the bleak simplicity that knew no tutor but the North. Would you but guide Dickinson