Lydia Maria Child autograph letter signed to John Sullivan Dwight, New York, December 1, 1842
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Child asks about sending a recent widow, Caroline Henshaw Colt, to Brook Farm. (She was not admitted.) Quoted, with details about Mrs. Colt, in The Idyll of Brook Farm, p. 22-25.
Letter quoted in: Haraszti, Zoltàn. "The Idyll of Brook Farm as Revealed by Unpublished Letters in the Boston Public Library." Trustees of the Boston Public Library, 1937, Boston.