A Guide to the Letter from Lucy Larcom to Susan Hayes Ward September 4, 1865 Larcom, Lucy, Letters of 7005-f

A Guide to the Letter from Lucy Larcom to Susan Hayes Ward September 4, 1865

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

7005-f

Title

Letter from Lucy Larcom to Susan Hayes Ward, September 4, 1865

Physical Characteristics

This holding consists of a single letter, AL, 3 p. on 1 l.

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Letter from Lucy Larcom to Susan Hayes Ward, Accession # 7005-f, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This holding was purchased from David Holmes on July 8, 1996.

Scope and Content Information

In this letter to "Dear Susie" [Susan Hayes Ward] (1838-1924), Lucy Larcom, Beverly, Massachusetts, mentions Guilford [Institute in Connecticut]; the anniversary at [Wheaton Seminary], Norton, [Massachusetts]; and, being in Amesbury, [Massachusetts]. She also mentions knowing Mrs. Metcalf, the Doggetts, poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), author Gail Hamilton [Miss Mary Abigail Dodge] (1833-1896), educator Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), and Miss Spalding during her years at Wheaton Seminary. She writes of her stay in Amesbury that "it is always a refreshment to be in the society of a man like our poet Whittier" and says that she has left Ward's copy of Faber's Poems [Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)] with Whittier as he expressed a desire to read them.

A portion of this letter was published in The Rushlight: Special Number in Memory of Lucy Larcom , issued by the Trustees of Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Massachusetts, and edited by Susan Hayes Ward [RareBooks Barrett PS2223.W3 21894].