Friendship album, 1833-1839.

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Friendship album, 1833-1839.

Poems and letters from friends in Ipswich and Boston, Massachusetts, and Utica, New York; later used as a commonplace book and includes "Burial of the young" by Lydia Sigourney.

1 v. ; 25 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7364588

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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...

Williams, William

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Williams, Harriet.

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