Snow and Emily Dickinson
December 14th, 2006
I couldn’t resist. The excerpt is from a letter to the Hollands and sounded so much like poetry — as do all Dickinson’s letters — that I just had to make a page for it. The script is great, too. It generates the falling snowflakes from a single asterisk.
I’m a proud member of the Emily Dickinson International Society.
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How cool is that? I love the look…and the thought.
Comment by DJ ? December 14, 2006 @ 5:34 pm
I’m a proud member of the Emily Dickinson International Society.
Comment by Cheryl ? December 14, 2006 @ 6:23 pm
Cheryl, that is beautiful. Emily has always been one of my favorites.
Comment by Shawna R. B. Atteberry ? December 16, 2006 @ 2:45 pm
I took a class on Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman in grad school and got hooked. I’ve got two years in on a biography of Theodora Van Wagenen Ward, granddaughter of Emily’s close friends, Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland. Theodora found a cache of sixty letters from Emily to the Hollands in her mother’s attic. Although it took twenty-two years to get them into print, the process confirmed Theodora as a Dickinson scholar. She went on to assist Dr. Tom Johnson with the dating of the collected poems. She was named Associate Editor on the collection of letters. Quite the lady!
As a result of my research, I learned that Theodora had been given a cup and saucer that belonged to Emily — she later donated these to the museum at Harvard.
Comment by Cheryl ? December 17, 2006 @ 8:25 pm