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Nov. 3d 1859—Sept. 8, 1861. Entries include introspective thoughts, poetry, commentary on current and political events, especially the Civil War, and on her reading.

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Oct 5th 1861—Aug 4th 1862. Very little poetry, but much commentary on the progress of the Civil War.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Lucy Larcom Papers include 2 diaries, Nov. 1859-Aug. 1862, originally begun as an "extended letter" to Esther Humiston. Humiston was a life long confidante until her death in 1861. Many of the entries were marked for inclusion in Daniel Dulany Addison's biography "Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters and Diary" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894.) Within the collection are Larcom's commonplace books from 1859-1867 in which she collected clippings and manuscript excerpts of...

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Philosophy notebook: Contents listed, including Outline of Philosophy, Sensationalism, Idealism, Skepticism, Mysticism, Eclecticism, Plato and his Philosophy, Aristotle and his Philosopy, The Scholastics.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Lucy Larcom Papers include 2 diaries, Nov. 1859-Aug. 1862, originally begun as an "extended letter" to Esther Humiston. Humiston was a life long confidante until her death in 1861. Many of the entries were marked for inclusion in Daniel Dulany Addison's biography "Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters and Diary" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894.) Within the collection are Larcom's commonplace books from 1859-1867 in which she collected clippings and manuscript excerpts of...

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Includes some verse.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Lucy Larcom Papers include 2 diaries, Nov. 1859-Aug. 1862, originally begun as an "extended letter" to Esther Humiston. Humiston was a life long confidante until her death in 1861. Many of the entries were marked for inclusion in Daniel Dulany Addison's biography "Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters and Diary" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894.) Within the collection are Larcom's commonplace books from 1859-1867 in which she collected clippings and manuscript excerpts of...

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Quotations from newspapers and journals, poems by Hugo and others, draft poems by Lucy Larcom. Rhetoric notes.

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Clipping and manuscripts excerpts of poems, quotations from Blake, Lavater, Wesley, Longfellow, Herbert, Emerson, LL, and many others; lists of authors writing on such subjects as the Forest and Flowers, Mountains and Hillsides; notes on Salem history [perhaps for her various published collections of poetry].

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“How They Climbed Chocurua,” and “The Poet’s Will,” [Poems by Whittier, written at Bearcamp River House, Ossipee, NH,] in Lucy Larcom’s hand, 1877.