Poets, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Emily Dickinson Collection
Collection — MS Am. 1093
Call Number: MS Am. 1093
Scope and Contents
This collection contains approximately 70 letters and 43 poems sent by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) to Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The letters provide insight into their relationship, particularly Higginson’s role as her “teacher” and Dickinson’s personal life. Also included are letters written between Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd regarding the publication of Dickinson’s poems. Many of the letters Dickinson sent to Higginson appear in The Poems of...
Dates:
1859-1907; Majority of material found in 1862-1891
Thomas William Parsons Correspondence
Collection — MS C.1.8
Call Number: MS C.1.8
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 50 letters that were written between 1848-1882, mostly to Mrs. And Mr. George Lundt, Thomas William Parsons’s sister and brother-in-law, and cover various subjects including personal matters, the Greek Anthology, his own poetry, and his translation of Dante.
Dates:
1848-1882; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1938
Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields
Collection — MS C.1.38
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 269 letters written by Celia Thaxter (1835-1894) between 1869 and 1893. The majority of the letters are addressed to American writer Annie Fields (1834-1915) and document Thaxter’s daily life: writing and other artistic endeavors, gardening, book discussions, family troubles and successes, domestic life and her experiences with Spiritualism. She often included descriptions of nature in her letters and was well-known for her descriptions of the Isle of Shoals, first...
Dates:
1869-1893
