AL (last leaf only) : Amherst, Mass., to Catharine Dickinson Sweetser, [1876 Oct.?].

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AL (last leaf only) : Amherst, Mass., to Catharine Dickinson Sweetser, [1876 Oct.?].

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Closing page of a letter to her aunt, with a reference to "Uncle Underwood", signed "Your trifling niece". The missing portion mentions several visits, including one from Judge Otis Phillips Lord and his wife. Tentatively dated by Johnson on the basis of this reference.

1 item (1 p.) in case ; 23 cm.

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Sweetser, Catharine Dickinson, 1814-1895

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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...