Friendship album, 1823-1826.

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Friendship album, 1823-1826.

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Poetry and prose selections copied by Hartford friends; includes two original poems in the hand of Lydia Sigourney, "To Miss Mary C. Wells" and "Imitation of a passage in a Sermon of the Revd. Mr. Hawes, delivered on the last Sabbath of the Year 1822."

1 v. ; 25 cm.

Connecticut Historical Society

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Sigourney, Lydia Howard, 1791-1865

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (born September 1, 1791, Norwich, Connecticut–died June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut), poet, also known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford", was the only daughter of a gardener. She attended private school with the assistance of her father’s employer, and founded a Hartford school for girls in 1814. At this school, without any specialized training, Sigourney taught a deaf student, Alice Cogswell, to read and write in English. Cogswell would later be the first student enr...

Wells, Mary C., 1807-1840.

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Mary Wells married George W. Corning in 1831. From the description of Friendship album, 1823-1826. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 15479505 ...