Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols letters to Alonzo Lewis [manuscript], 1848-1859, undated.

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Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols letters to Alonzo Lewis [manuscript], 1848-1859, undated.

Over the course of 11 years, Nichols writes to her dear friend Alonzo Lewis about poetry, her life, and career as an author. The letters are typically very stream-of-consciousness, and Nichols often delves into issues of religion, including her conversion to Roman Catholicism, family, and the ways in which Lewis is "truly a poet." Briefly mentions Anna Bishop, Sarah Jane Lipppincott Clarke (Grace Greenwood), Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Jenny Lind, Herman Melville, John Godfrey Saxe, [Richard Henry?] Stoddard, and Nathaniel Willis. Includes a poem, written as a valentine, entitled "The rose and the ray." Collection also contains a letter from J. E. Worcester sending a dictionary.

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