I was ill since September and since April, in Boston, for a Physician's care. Dr Williams forbade the use of pen and ink. Can you render my Pencil? The Physician has taken away my Pen,
the pen "she had been feverishly employing for nearly two years. Her letters at this time are entirely in pencil, as are her poetry manuscripts...". She went back to Cambridge for further treatment in 1865, and while she continued to send pencil messages to friends, she returned to transcribing her poems in ink onto fascicle sheets. She done most of her writing, both in pen and pencil, in her bedroom at the Homestead, on a small work table with a single drawer.
Unauthenticated daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson, ca. 1848-1853
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