Jenine Bates Greenough correspondence (Ms. 2010.027)

This collection includes the correspondence of Jenine Bates Greenough and of her father, William Bates. Notable correspondents include Horace Mann, Edward Everett (governor of Massachusetts, 1835-1839) and Edward Dickinson (father of Emily Dickenson). The bulk of Greenough’s letters reflect the thirty years she spent in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts, giving a portrait of the life of a scholarly woman in a small New England town. These letters are intended to compliment the Emily Dickinson collection.