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Source Description
Discussing happiness, enclosing pressed fern.
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Document identity
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fq978067j
label
Emily Dickinson, Amherst, Mass., autograph letter to Mary Channing Higginson, late summer 1876
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obj
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document
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1
Source metadata
id
fq978067j
contentType
document
stage
normalized
title
Emily Dickinson, Amherst, Mass., autograph letter to Mary Channing Higginson, late summer 1876
description
Discussing happiness, enclosing pressed fern.
date
["July 1876–August 1876"]
year
1876
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
BPL Higginson number: 66
creators
Higginson, Mary Elizabeth, -1877
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Emily Dickinson Collection, 1862-1907
subjects
Happiness
genreBasic
Manuscripts
Correspondence
Objects
genreSpecific
Poetry
Ferns
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Text
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1
source
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extent
1 item (1 sheet) + accompanying material
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no
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
kh04mv594
notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Accompanying material includes 1 envelope and 1 pressed fern.
Poem included within the letter is "The Flake the Wind exasperate", Johnson Poem 1361.
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fq978067j
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document
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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