Letters to Lucretia Gunn Dickinson Bullard, [ca. 1864]

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Letters to Lucretia Gunn Dickinson Bullard, [ca. 1864]

Three letters, two with lines of poetry, written to Dickinson's Aunt Lucretia (Mrs. Asa Bullard), the poet's father's eldest sister who lived in Cambridge, Mass. Probably written while Dickinson was in Cambridge undergoing treatment for her eyes, the letters thank her aunt for gifts.

3 items, bound ; 23 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7798412

Houghton Library

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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

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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...

Bullard, Lucretia Gunn Dickinson,

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