Emily
Dickinson Collection:
Includes one
original letter by Dickinson and articles about her year at Mount
Holyoke, 1847/48
Autograph
Albums:
Dickinson's
signature ("Emily E. Dickinson") is included in autograph
albums that belonged to a Mount Holyoke teacher, Mary M. Stevens,
and Harriette C. Haile, a member of the Class of 1848.
Mount Holyoke
Female Seminary Catalogue, 1847/48:
Lists names
of all students and teachers; describes curriculum and requirements.
Mount
Holyoke Journal Letters, 1847/48:
Account of
events at Mount Holyoke, compiled by teachers.
Three
Letters Which Mention Dickinson:
By Mary Whitman,
Associate Principal, by Emily Norcross, Class of 1848 and Dickinson's
cousin, and by Sarah Anderson, Class of 1848. All letters were
written in January 1848 and comment on Dickinson's religious state.
Personal
Papers of Other Mount Holyoke Students, 1847/48:
Includes ten
compositions by Harriet Sanford, Class of 1849; three notebooks
compiled by Malvina Stanton, Class of 1849 which contain notes
for the study of botany, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Butler's
Analogy of Religion; a letter written by Emeline A. Wheeler, Class
of 1850 to her parents on October 8, 1847; an account book kept
by Harriet Chick, Class of 1850 listing income and expenses in
1847/48; and notebooks compiled by Hannah Louisa Plimpton, Class
of 1848 consisting of notes on Milton's Paradise Lost and an herbarium
collected for botany class.
Mary Lyon
Collection:
Includes letters
by and to Lyon, printed circulars written by her describing Mount
Holyoke's design and principles, and notes for daily talks she
gave to students.
Seminary
Textbooks Collection:
Copies of textbooks
used at Mount Holyoke in 1847/48.
