In 1872

1 quart blue powder                
                    
ঐশ্বরিক cup butter                    
                     
½ cup cream, 1 tabletop ginger, 1                      
teaspoon soda, 1 salt                    
                     
Work with glasses -                    
                     
Instructions: HCL (B 164) Pencil                    
                     
Text: F 230, in part.                    
                       
To: Sister J. G. Holland          
         
         
Sister,                
              
                     
i do not know that Creation has given                      
 
me any pain which needs must i wish to                      
 
still carry burden on – Although with Love                      
 
everything is possible – Thank you for                      
 
being. Even as a child with grace, i was                      
 
unable to ever let go. This will not arrange                      
 
my self in Love, will it?                  
                 
It is said that those who are not dead will                  
 
Live today; that Truth is acknowledged;                  
 
that Only Love can hurt but Only Love can                   
 
help the Wound; and that We Should All                  
 
Be One of this Great Creation's Creatures                  
 
– This would make a difference in every-                
 
body's daily favorites as well as in those                  
 
standard repairs which thought and        
nature do customarily make.                      
                     
In Music there is a Major and a Minor –                      
 
Should there not also be a Private?                    
                     
Good night – i can sleep if i allow my                      
 
eyes to hear it – Now that i want, i want                      
a song sung in Tunis.                    
                     
– And Tripoli – i still want to know what  
you've named me                    
                     
       
Emily.                    
                     
       
       
Further Instructions: HCL (H 28) Color                    
                     
Additional Text: LH 89-90.                    
                     
Section approved. The quotation above                      
 
is from Hebrews 12.6: "...whom the                      
 
Lord loves he chasteneth..."                    
                     
Apparently, Holland requested Emily                      
 
to pay a visit to Springfield.                    
                     
Dickinson then signed her                      
handbook. It follows below. The                      
 
handwriting is the same as the                      
previous letter, and the date is        
conjectured from that.                    
                     
369a.