“A mutual plum is not a plum. I was too respectful to take the pulp and do not like a stone.”
source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2, ed. by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), 455.
category: fruit, mutual, plum, share
medium: letter
notes: letter to Mrs. J. G. Holland, late November 1866?
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