在“组合”被发现后不久，艾米莉狄金森的死亡，她的姐姐和唯一幸存的室友。大部分的诗复制了仔细的说明张纸，并在小fascicules并列，六，八张元。虽然其中许多承担证据证明他们已经被排除在白热化起飞，更收到了周到的修订。存在着令人疑惑，脚经常此外，票据，又无能力负担单词和短语大选择。而在她的副本发送给朋友，有时是一种形式，有时又是被发现使用。如果没有重要的例外，她的朋友们慷慨地将在他们的诗从她收到的编辑处理，而这些已在同一诗几个透视比较明显的优势。
    为了进一步严格修剪什么她的诗会受到她发表了他们自己，我们无法知道。他们应该被视为仅仅是第一个强有力的暗示素描艺术家的意图，将在某个时间完成的画面体现在许多情况下。
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    The "portfolios" were found, shortly after Emily Dickinson's death, by her sister and only surviving housemate. Most of the poems had been carefully copied on sheets of note-paper, and tied in little fascicules, each of six or eight sheets. While many of them bear evidence of having been thrown off at white heat, still more had received thoughtful revision. There is the frequent addition of rather perplexing foot-notes, affording large choice of words and phrases. And in the copies which she sent to friends, sometimes one form, sometimes another, is found to have been used. Without important exception, her friends have generously placed at the disposal of the Editors any poems they had received from her; and these have given the obvious advantage of comparison among several renderings of the same verse.
    To what further rigorous pruning her verses would have been subjected had she published them herself, we cannot know. They should be regarded in many cases as merely the first strong and suggestive sketches of an artist, intended to be embodied at some time in the finished picture.