RARE 1876 Emily Dickinson Hand written Letter Framed Amherst MA ~ For Sale

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RARE 1876 Emily Dickinson Hand written Letter Framed Amherst MA

Up for sale today is this RARE 1876 Emily Dickinson Hand written Letter Framed Amherst MA. This is a super piece of American history. Letters written by Emily are so hard to come by. The Letter is on a single piece of paper that was tri folded. The front reads \" With Rosy Congratulations for Mama and Mouse Emily and Vinnie. Vinnie is Dickinson\'s younger sister, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson (1833-99). The sisters lived together almost without interruption until Dickinson died in 1886.  The back of the letter reads \"Letter to Mrs (Adelaide ) Henry Hill from Miss Emily Dickinson when Caroline C (Cheney) Hill was born June 14th 1876. Most of the Hills correspondence was scattered after the death of her daughter. Even though they were neighbors the two of them never met face to face. Paper measures 8\" x 5\" and is in a lovely antique wood frame. Please make note the letter at some point was laminated to protect the paper and graphite writing. This is 100% the real deal and comes with a lifetime guarantee. Don\'t pass this up as only a few are ever available for sale.  
Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886 born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for one year. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was actively involved in state and national politics, serving in Congress for one term. Her brother, Austin, who attended law school and became an attorney, lived next door with his wife, Susan Gilbert. Dickinson’s younger sister, Lavinia, also lived at home, and she and Austin were intellectual companions for Dickinson during her lifetime.  Dickinson’s poetry was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revelation and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town, which encouraged a Calvinist, orthodox, and conservative approach to Christianity. She admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as John Keats. Though she was dissuaded from reading the verse of her contemporary Walt Whitman by rumors of its disgracefulness, the two poets are now connected by the distinguished place they hold as the founders of a uniquely American poetic voice. While Dickinson was extremely prolific and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955. She died in Amherst in 1886.  Upon her death, Dickinson’s family discovered forty handbound volumes of nearly 1,800 poems, or “fascicles,” as they are sometimes called. Dickinson assembled these booklets by folding and sewing five or six sheets of stationery paper and copying what seem to be final versions of poems. The handwritten poems show a variety of dash-like marks of various sizes and directions (some are even vertical). The poems were initially unbound and published according to the aesthetics of her many early editors, who removed her annotations. The current standard version of her poems replaces her dashes with an en-dash, which is a closer typographical approximation to her intention. The original order of the poems was not restored until 1981, when Ralph W. Franklin used the physical evidence of the paper itself to restore her intended order, relying on smudge marks, needle punctures, and other clues to reassemble the packets. Since then, many critics have argued that there is a thematic unity in these small collections, rather than their order being simply chronological or convenient. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson (Belknap Press, 1981) is the only volume that keeps the order intact. Please make note Free Shipping as well as upgraded shipping methods are for lower 48 US Destinations. Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam may incur additional shipping charges due to size and weight of the item purchased.

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