What Emily Dickinson Left Behind
The winding story of how a trove of 8,000 of the poet’s family objects were saved
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: Courtesy of the Emily Dickinson Museum. The Encounter That Revealed a Different Side of Emily Dickinson
After eight years of letter writing, the author Thomas Wentworth Higginson finally met the reclusive poet face-to-face.
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