News at Eleven (Back Page): "I think that you could read

a lot into the herbarium if you wanted to," says [Leslie A.] Morris carefully, pointing out that the first specimen on the first page is jasmine, a plant [Emily] Dickinson was fond of. "Jasmine has as one of its nicknames 'poet's jessamine'; it can also mean 'passion' in the language of flowers. Did she choose that specimen because it represented poetry to her?"

from Harvard University Gazette: HU Press publishes poet Emily Dickinson's childhood herbarium

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