My two most recent posts have focused on a letter from Dickinson to friend and mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Two days ago I addressed her disclosure that “Two Editors of Journals came to my Father's House, this winter- and asked me for my Mind”; yesterday I examined her perspective on self-reflection, “I could not weigh myself-Myself.”
There’s another quote from that letter that relates to a couple of graphics I came upon when I was exploring who knows what. I don’t recall. I just saved copies of the images and a link to the article knowing that one day I’d get to them in one of my daily posts, and voila! Lo and Behold! Looky here! Ta da…and Bob’s your uncle! Here are the two graphics! The first is a bar graph on book ownership in the Dickinson family (excluding Dickinson’s father’s law library). The second is a pie chart, “Homestead and Evergreens Library Genres.”
There’s another quote from that letter that relates to a couple of graphics I came upon when I was exploring who knows what. I don’t recall. I just saved copies of the images and a link to the article knowing that one day I’d get to them in one of my daily posts, and voila! Lo and Behold! Looky here! Ta da…and Bob’s your uncle! Here are the two graphics! The first is a bar graph on book ownership in the Dickinson family (excluding Dickinson’s father’s law library). The second is a pie chart, “Homestead and Evergreens Library Genres.”
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Both of these graphics come from an article by Jane Wald entitled, “‘I am glad there are Books. They are better than Heaven’: Religious Texts in the Dickinson Family Libraries,” HERE.
By the way, Jane Wald is the director of the Emily Dickinson Museum (since 2006) – and I think her official title is the “Jane and Robert Keiter Family Executive Director” – which begs the question, “Who are (were?) Jane and Robert Keiter?” Well, I found some info HERE.
Additionally, the title of Wald’s article includes the quote, “I am glad there are books” – and this is not the quote I mentioned at the start of today’s post, the one from the letter I shared in my recent posts; no, this quote comes from a letter to Franklin Sanborn, an editor at the Springfield Republican, HERE.
So finally, back to the letter I first mentioned at the start of the post, the one related to the two graphics, and the specific statement Dickinson made to Higginson is this:
“He buys me many Books - but begs me not to read them - because he fears they joggle the Mind.”
What do you make of that? As Arte Johnson on “Laugh-In” used to say, “Verrrry Interesting.”
More tomorrow. Stay tuned.
By the way, Jane Wald is the director of the Emily Dickinson Museum (since 2006) – and I think her official title is the “Jane and Robert Keiter Family Executive Director” – which begs the question, “Who are (were?) Jane and Robert Keiter?” Well, I found some info HERE.
Additionally, the title of Wald’s article includes the quote, “I am glad there are books” – and this is not the quote I mentioned at the start of today’s post, the one from the letter I shared in my recent posts; no, this quote comes from a letter to Franklin Sanborn, an editor at the Springfield Republican, HERE.
So finally, back to the letter I first mentioned at the start of the post, the one related to the two graphics, and the specific statement Dickinson made to Higginson is this:
“He buys me many Books - but begs me not to read them - because he fears they joggle the Mind.”
What do you make of that? As Arte Johnson on “Laugh-In” used to say, “Verrrry Interesting.”
More tomorrow. Stay tuned.
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