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EMILY DICKINSON
1830
Year of Dickinson’s birth, in Amherst, Massachusetts
10
Number of her poems published before her death, at age 55
69
Number of years between her death and the publication of the first complete volume of her work
3,507
Number of poems and letters she’s known to have written 24
Number of years Dickinson corresponded with her mentor, Thomas Higginson, editor of The Atlantic Monthly two
Number of times she and Higginson met in person
100,000+
Number of visitors to Amherst’s Emily Dickinson Museum since it opened in 2003
$100
Cost for a museum visitor to spend a solitary hour in the bedroom where Dickinson wrote
TWO
Number of words in her last known letter, from May 1866 (“Called back”)
SIX
Number of Irish laborers she requested carry her casket to the family grave site
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Saw an ad in Uncle Henry’s: “100 Pounds of Sea Glass For Sale”...that’s all it said We called, then visited She was delightful She said she and her daughters, and then grandchildren, had been picking up sea glass on the beaches around her home forever.The walls in her basement were lined with coffee cans and glass jars It was beautiful This was the definitive collection of Maine sea glass We bought it all Sterling silver X2593 $285.00