Letter, 1846 January 17, to Harriet Killem, Hartford, Conn.

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Letter, 1846 January 17, to Harriet Killem, Hartford, Conn.

Thanks for the Eve's pudding she sent over and gives her a cluster of grapes from her garden; style of note is rhetorically elegant.

4 p. ; 19 x 12 cm.

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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...

Killem, Harriet Watson, 1786-1866.

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