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A Correction: David Parsons, Machinist and Clockmaker, in The Letters of Emily Dickinson
- The Emily Dickinson Journal
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 27, Number 2, 2018
- pp. 167-171
- 10.1353/edj.2018.0010
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
In an editorial note to Emily Dickinson's January 12, 1846 letter to Abiah Root, Thomas H. Johnson mis-identifies the David Parsons to whom Dickinson refers as the longtime pastor of the First Church. This essay corrects this record: the letter refers in fact to the pastor's son of the same name, a highly skilled machinist and clockmaker. The essay offers a brief history of this David Parsons and considers some of the ways Dickinson's familiarity with the local mechanical genius and clockmaker might inform our reading of some of her poems.
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