Introduction

I. 1886-1891 : Editorial procedure for the first and second series. Colonel Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd ; Copying the poems ; Characteristics of the transcripts ; Roberts Brothers and Arlo Bates ; Altering the poems ; Reception of the first series ; Editorial procedure for the second series

II. Midsummer 1891 : manuscript order and disorder. Indexing the manuscripts ; The manuscripts ; The Houghton Collection and the notebook ; The placement of H 157 ; The placement of missing poems ; Reordering packets 39, 24, and 11 ; Reordering packets 28, 5, and 17 ; Reordering packets 2 and 3, 6 and 27 ; Reordering Packets 10, 14, 23, and 26 ; The history of the Houghton Packets 80 ; The Amherst Collection ; Reconstructing packet 80 ; The mutilation of packet 80 ; The history of packet 80 ; Publication and reception of the second series

III. 1891-1896 : the third series in the Variorum. The 1896 printer's copy ; Copies and recopies ; Texts for lost manuscripts ; Collation of manuscripts ; Variant versions, incomplete poems, and omissions ; Summary ; Epilogue

IV. The present : the question of a readers' ‬edition. The mechanics of the verse ; The text ; Criticism and editing.