Collection, 1788-1911.

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Collection, 1788-1911.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40547734

Correspondence, literary papers and record books of poetess in Hartford, Conn.; includes pen and ink sketch map of ice fields encountered by the Great Western, the ship on which Lydia Sigourney was traveling on a voyage from Europe to America in April 1841; also correspondence and diaries, 1842-1854, of her husband, Charles Sigourney.

2 boxes (364 items) ; 39 x 26 x 12 cm.

Connecticut Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7427488

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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...

Great Western (Ship)

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Sigourney, Charles, 1778-1854

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