ALsS, [1868-1884], Amherst, Mass., to the Sweetser family.

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ALsS, [1868-1884], Amherst, Mass., to the Sweetser family.

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Includes twenty-one letters to her friend and neighbor Cornelia Peck (Nellie) Sweetser (one signed also by Emily's sister Lavinia), five to her aunt Catharine Dickinson Sweetser, and one to Cornelia's mother Abby Tyler Munsell Sweetser. Some letters mention family matters, but most are brief notes to accompany or give thanks for gifts and other remembrances.

1 v. (27 items) ; 29 cm.

Rosenbach Museum & Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6732809

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Sweetser, Catharine Dickinson, 1814-1895

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Dickinson, Lavinia Norcross, 1833-1899

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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830 to Edward Dickinson (AC 1823) and Emily Norcross Dickinson. She attended Amherst Academy from 1840 to 1847, then enrolled at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from 1847 to 1848. She remained in Amherst for the rest of her life, and traveled only briefly to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. For virtually her entire adult life, Emily lived in the Dickinson home at 280 Main Street with h...

Sweetser, Abby Tyler Munsell, -1882

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Sweetser, Cornelia Peck

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