Wondering what the letters and numbers mean?
Every Dickinson poem is labelled with numbers and letters, corresponding to the edition in which they were published.
- 'F' corresponds to the Franklin Variorum 1998 edition, and the following number corresponds to the manuscript number.
- 'J' corresponds to the Johnson Poems 1955 edition. This particular edition organised the poems chronologically and numbered them accordingly as far as possible.
- 'P' correpsonds to the poems published in 1891. The following numbers correpsond to each poems place in that edition.
- 'F' corresponds to the Franklin Variorum 1998 edition, and the following number corresponds to the manuscript number.
- 'J' corresponds to the Johnson Poems 1955 edition. This particular edition organised the poems chronologically and numbered them accordingly as far as possible.
- 'P' correpsonds to the poems published in 1891. The following numbers correpsond to each poems place in that edition.