Manuscript/Mixed Material Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28
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Image 1 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 Anna Dickinson Family Correspondence August 2 1873August 28 1873- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
- Date: 1873-08-02
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Image 2 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 Swampscott Mass Aug 2 1873 My dearest Marmee Johns letter will tell them our decision destinationI hope it will be a right satisfactory one- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
- Date: 1873-08-02
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Image 3 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 all round I have so wanted to go to the mountains that I am sure they will do me good I suffer here as much from sleeplessness as I did at home…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
- Date: 1873-08-02
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Image 4 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 been long in the water must have been a terrible sight Last night a tremendous storm went over us after a sickeningly hot day but there is very little trace of it…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 5 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 No 1326 Arch St Phila Aug 18 1873 Dear Marmee I got on safe enough Betty kept me company till the train fairly started I met one of my old adorers on…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 6 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 on to me so that Julie thought he would never let me go She was at the train to meet me We were over at the house today All looked straight enough…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 7 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 baggagemaster last night What have cos Wm Rebecca decided on what of the small EdwinnsDear love to allI send Marmee my heart Anna- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 8 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 Dennison Ohio 12M August 12th All right every thing lovely JD There was some delay from a freight train wreck but we are again off On the cars 9 PM Aug 12…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 9 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 Mary E Dickinson Mount Vernon New York Mary E Dickinson Mount Vernon New York Aug 14th Mary E Dickinson Mount Vernon New York Mary E Dickinson Mount Vernon New York Susie E…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 10 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 Dennison Ohio Aug 12 1873 Dear little Maum here we are stuck and very much against our will Yesterday at noon I found John safe sound on the train in possession of…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 11 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 2 since I had left mine behind me However we put all our bags thru in better array added thereto our shawl straps finally had the procession in decent order the porter…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 12 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 4 trees that show how many generations have lived worked died there The country is green as in June the heavy rains of the last two weeks doing away with all the…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 13 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 6 space Farther range spurs bends River bends spurs Bridge Heres a fine picture My ideas of perspective rival a Chinamans â â after that there is nothing of special interest or…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 14 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 8 valleys Overhead dark clouds a thick atmosphere filled with driving rain on the left the wall of the mountain  on the right now then a wall where there was a…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 15 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 10 to have been sleep but had Im afraid very little of refreshment in it â Even when one does sleep in the cars ones brain has but slight repose tho ones…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 16 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 12 cloth well enough as to material but put on crookedly dirty The napkins well enough ditto but only half ironed wet the dishes plenty of them pitched onto the table looking…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 17 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 14 towels used as handkerchiefs mingled in wild confusion If Dickens had dared to tell even half the truth about us in some ways he would have been torn asunder After breakfast…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 18 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 16 of one of the machines to me I was amused watching the face of one of the young fellows at work on it At first he held his nose as tho…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 19 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 18 rough fellow engineer or engine worker of some kind came up to him asked Was that Miss Anna E Dickinson who was walking about with you looking at the machinery Yes…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 20 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 20 no response whatever The country between D C is wholly uninteresting indifferent looking houses fields with a commonplace surface of land We reached Columbus at near four oclock half famished fell…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 21 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 22 fossil limestone all sorts of queer little white shapes show in it over which John grew interested The rotunda has in its centre a large store of variegated marble the rest…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 22 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 24 far better ventilated with two queer looking little galleries that look no wider than an entry The Senate Chamber has no gallery but comfortable old fashioned horse hair sofas on each…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 23 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 26 trainout of Columbus about 530 came through a pleasant farming country saw a beautiful sun set tho one that threatened rainWhich rain fell through the night Both had a far more…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 24 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 28 scarcely a fence or a tree to be seennow fences abound certainly add no beauty to the scene small forests are growing up in all directions as certainly to its improvement…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 25 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 30 valor of the tremendous floods the shifting treacherous bottom This time they sunk the piers some 100 some 120 ft below the river bed so built up from that Bell Thee…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 26 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 32 but they will serve In them are sockets into which round iron tubes are securely fastened one tube after another screwed on till the arch is completed The arches or tubes…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 27 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 34 directions but no growth will ever make it beautiful The soft limestone of its foundation makes the air full of chalkey dust that blinds cuts one the watering carts are so…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 28 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 36 yards of bunting to make the red white red colors the house has always since been the head quarters of succession I didnt care about that But some years ago the…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 29 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 38 headquarters of societies c numerous tasty with pleasant woody grounds all around St Louis is making a great blunder in the matter of a park It is already 7 miles in…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 30 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 40 at 8 PM were due here at 825 but did not reach here till nearly 11a freight train detained us off the track for nearly two hours in the early morning…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 31 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 42 reason of our broken connectionsOhio still following us do not get away till 11 oclock tonight when ho for Denver I was amused at one of the signs I spied on…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 32 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 44 I never suffered more from the heat than I have this dayIt has been simply awful the blood has boiled in my head till I am not sure my brain is…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 33 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 46 Here was the elegant car the epitome of civilization in travel outside some partings fencing it off from the street or road opposite a halfdozen drinking gambling saloonsone story white washed…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 34 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 48 Nebraska enormous swells rolling one out of the other like the billows of a sea belonging to a world of giants but that we soon passed ran into a rain storm…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 35 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 50 skin hair wirey curled only about two inches long Here there are patches all over it of a brightgreen Here the great herds lie down to make wallows in which the…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 36 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 52 I have been on the platform almost all day now wearying of this endless solitude there is something about or in whom more solemn great have the sea looking over them…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 37 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 54 Air that exhilarated like wine to breathe a sky soft greys to the south southwest over at the west a heavenly clearness in which hung a splendor of golden clouds the…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 38 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 56 inhospitable country where stone does not abound wood is more than scarce storms are awful the people who must be here or who are here make for themselves dug outs which…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 39 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 West Pittston Aug 15 1873 My dear Brother Sister Annas welcome letter written at Mr V mailed in Phila reached me Monday and the joint telegram from Dennison O on Wed telling…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
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Image 40 of Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28 business letter came in the last mail from Z Pope Vase the envelope says Rockland Me and goes to Bernard today None for Denver yet I do hope Bernard will prove a…- Contributor: Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth)
- Date: 1873-08-02
About this Item
Title
- Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904; 1873, Aug. 2-28
Names
- Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932
Created / Published
- August 2, 1873 - August 28, 1873
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- - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- - Antislavery movements--United States
- - Slavery--United States
- - Lecturers
- - Theater--United States
- - Women--Suffrage--United States
- - Women's rights--United States
- - Actresses
- - Reformers
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
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- Manuscripts
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- series: Family Correspondence, 1860-1904
- mss18424, box 2; reel 2
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- Anna E. Dickinson papers
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