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Title
Lydia Avery Coonley letter to Mabel Loomis Todd
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Creation Information
Date Created
1886 - 1896
Date Note
The letter is undated. The date range is based on the year Emily Dickinson died and the year the final volume of Dickinson's poems and letters that Mabel Loomis Todd edited was published.
Physical Description
1 item (4 pages)
Abstract
A letter from Lydia Avery Coonley to Mabel Loomis Todd, Coonley transcribes a letter sent from her aunt Maria Avery Howard describing Howard's acquaintance with and description of Emily Dickinson. Coonley includes a transcription of Emily Dickinson's "We'll pass without a parting" and states that Emily sent the poem to Maria Howard along with an oleander blossom tied with black ribbon. There is an alternate word included in the text of the transcript that seems to have been corrected by Lydia Coonley. On the reverse side of the poem a letter to Todd signed Lydia Avery Coonley, Coonley states she tried to copy Dickinson's poem just as it had been written following Dickinson's line breaks and capitalizations. The poem transcribed in the letter may relate to Emily Dickinson's manuscript of "We'll pass without a parting" in this collection (Amherst Manuscript set 88).
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Finding Aid
Identifier (Local)
Amherst Manuscript # set 88
Franklin # 503
Johnson # 996
Franklin # 503
Johnson # 996
Language
English
Repository
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