Excerpt from Letters of Emily Dickinson, Vol. 1 of 2
In her later years, Emily Dickinson rarely ad dressed the envelopes it seemed as if her sensitive nature shrank from the publicity which even her handwriting would undergo, in the observation of indifferent eyes. Various expedients were resorted to, obliging friends frequently performed this office for her; sometimes a printed newspaper label was pasted upon the envelope; but the actual strokes of her own pencil were, so far as possible, reserved exclusively for friendly eyes.
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