Mabel Loomis Todd letters, 1932.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Mabel Loomis Todd letters, 1932.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36949299

This collection includes three letters to Jane Summerell, a faculty member in the Department of English at Woman's College (now UNCG) from 1926-1958. Two letters are from Mabel Loomis Todd, dated January 6, 1932 and May 16, 1932. Todd's letter of January 6 talks about her work on the Emily Dickinson poems; the May 16 letter is in response to a request from Summerell to lecture at Woman's College. The final letter is from Millicent Todd Bingham, dated October 22, 1932, telling Miss Summerell of her mother's sudden death. Also in the folder is a first day issue Emily Dickinson commemorative stamp and envelope postmarked Amherst, Massachusetts, August 28th, 1971.

3 letters

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, UNCG University Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7389249

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, UNCG University Libraries

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k0750t (person)

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830 to Edward Dickinson (AC 1823) and Emily Norcross Dickinson. She attended Amherst Academy from 1840 to 1847, then enrolled at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from 1847 to 1848. She remained in Amherst for the rest of her life, and traveled only briefly to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. For virtually her entire adult life, Emily lived in the Dickinson home at 280 Main Street with h...

Summerell, Jane

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68643m6 (person)

Bingham, Millicent Todd, 1880-1968

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t15k0j (person)

Millicent Todd Bingham, geographer, author, and editor of Emily Dickinson's poems and letters, was born February 5, 1880, in Washington, D.C. Her father, David Peck Todd, was a professor of astronomy at Amherst College from 1881 to 1917. Her mother, Mabel (Loomis) Todd, was a noted lecturer and author who, with Thomas Wentworth Higginson, first edited the poems and letters of her Amherst neighbor, Emily Dickinson. (Note: for biographical information about David Peck Todd and Mabel L...

Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v1293r (person)

Mabel Loomis Todd was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 10, 1856. She married David Peck Todd in 1879, and they moved to Amherst, Massachusetts where her husband taught astronomy at Amherst College. Mabel Loomis Todd soon became intimately involved with William Austin Dickinson, brother of Emily Dickinson. Mrs. Todd later edited the first published poems of Emily Dickinson. She also travelled on scientific expeditions with her husband, lectured professionally, and wrote several articl...