Letter, 1864 April 15, Hartford, Conn., to Frances Caulkins.

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Letter, 1864 April 15, Hartford, Conn., to Frances Caulkins.

Inquires as to the cost of taking a thousand impressions from the plate of a portrait of herself by Alexander or by Freeman; discusses obstacles to literary enterprise during the Civil War.

4 p. : ill. ; 20 x 13 cm.

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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...

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Forrest, Ian B., 1814-1870.

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