Friendship album, 1825-1864.

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Friendship album, 1825-1864.

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Writings from friends while living at Bridgeport Boarding School in 1826 and later in Hartford, Conn. and New York City; includes "Poets beware" in the hand of Alfred Agate, "Lines on the death of a beautiful girl," and "Nothing" in the hand of Lydia Sigourney, and a clipping from the Journal of Commerce of "Stars of my country's sky" by Lydia Sigourney.

1 v. ; 19 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...

Agate, Alfred T., 1812-1846

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White, Judith C. Miller.

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Bridgeport Boarding School.

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