*Since writing to Olive Higgins Prouty on 2 November, SP had completed: ‘Thalidomide’ (8 November); ‘Letter in November’ (11 November); ‘Death & Co.’ (14 November); ‘Years’ and ‘The Fearful’ (16 November); and ‘Mary’s Song’ (19 November). ‘Death & Co.’ was the last poem SP wrote which was to be included in Ariel, her second volume of poetry.