Harrison Hayford Emily Dickinson
Collection
The Carol Ann Haenicke American Women's Poetry Collection contains first editions
of the first three printed collections of the poems of Emily Dickinson. This
subcollection of the American Women's Poetry Collection was donated by Professor
Harrison Hayford of Chicago, IL.
He gave Western Michigan University his first
editions of Emily Dickinson's poetry, a daguerreotype portrait that may be of
Emily Dickinson, and a sheet of U.S. Post Office commemorative stamps. This collection,
residing in Special Collections, contains over 100 volumes of books about and
by Emily Dickinson.
Despite the fact Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) never published her work within
he own lifetime she continues to be a popular poet today. Her family published
all her work posthumously. Most of her poems are unnamed, only numbered, and
those which have titles were given them by her family.
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