Bowfront chest of drawers. New England, unknown maker; circa 1785-1810.The bottom drawer of this che
Bowfront chest of drawers. New England, unknown maker; circa 1785-1810.The bottom drawer of this chest of drawers once held hundreds of Emily Dickinson’s poems. Her sister Lavinia discovered them there after Emily’s death. The chest was in the poet’s bedchamber where she did much of her writing.Houghton Library, Harvard UniversityToday marks the debut of the Emily Dickinson Archive, a collaborative open access project involving Houghton Library, the Harvard University Press, Amherst College, and many other repositories, to make the manuscripts and texts of Emily Dickinson’s poems available to the public. -- source link
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