I find no time to read or think, and but little to walk - but just go revolving round a spool of `Coat's cotton' as if it were the grand centre of mental and moral life -' Quantities of garments and furbelows, to be made, lie stretching away before my crooked needles, I am quite in despair, and continually wondering and fretting, that we are not clothed like the lilies, without any spinning and toiling. In a letter to her friend Samuel Bartlett, Susan says: 'I've fairly commenced the Spring siege of sewing, and such That she has left her 'good friends in Amherst actually staring with astonishment.' Susan is independent, outspoken, deeply engaged with spiritual concerns, and like Emily, she is committed to pursuing intellectual growth withoutĮmily's and Susan's impatience and resentment of household duties are nearly identical. Her decision to go away is sudden, and she writes to her brother Dwight, declaring In the early years of the correspondence, between 18, Susan moves to Baltimore to teach at Robert Archer's school for gifts. Or Susan may save Emily's letters when she begins to keep letters from Austin.

Keep letters from Emily following the 1850 death of her sister Mary, in childbirth. The boundaries of the correspondence from Emily to Susan are defined by what Susan saves rather than by what Emily writes, and it is likely that Emily sends letters to Susan that have not survived. Lavinia (Vinnie) asked Susan's 'family into the circle which had for two or three years been gradually forming.' The letters from Emily to Susan and drafts of letters from Austin indicate that Susan is the object of passionate

In an 1850 letter to Susan, Emily's brother Austin remarks on the previous Thanksgiving and expresses his happiness when Emily and their sister Not certain how Emily and Susan met, it is likely that they were friends by 1847 or 1848. The first letter that is preserved from Emily to Susan is dated 1850. Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickisonĭuring the early and mid-1850s, Emily's correspondence to Susan is effusive and filled with puns and references to the act of writing.

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