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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Lobsterman’s Wife’s Maine Sea Glass Bracelet

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