Your Scholar (Emily Dickinson), Amherst, Mass., autograph letter signed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, late April 1886

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Item Information

Title:
Your Scholar (Emily Dickinson), Amherst, Mass., autograph letter signed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, late April 1886
Description:
Discussing Helen Jackson.
Addressee:
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
Author:
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Name on Item:
Your Scholar
Date:
April 1886
Format:
Manuscripts
Letters/Correspondence
Genre:
Poetry
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Manuscripts (America)
Subjects:
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885
Extent:
1 item (1 sheet)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/fq978172m
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Poem included within the letter is "The immortality she gave", Johnson Poem 1648 and "A Glory not a Beam is left", Johnson Poem 1647.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated to the Boston Public Library by Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1911.
Notes (date):
Date from Johnson Letter 1043.
Notes (citation):
References: Johnson, Thomas H., "The Letters of Emily Dickinson." (Cambridge, Mass., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958): Letter 1043 and Johnson, Thomas H., "The Poems of Emily Dickinson." (Cambridge, Mass., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1955): Poems 1647 and 1648.
Accession #:
Ms. Am. 1093 (114)
Identifier:
BPL Higginson number: 101