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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

George Griffin papers

 Collection — Box: BW 23, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16470
Content Description This collection consists of personal and literary letters to George Griffin, as well as his daughter, Caroline Lydia Griffin. Of note, is correspondence with Lydia Sigourney, a significant poet at that time, from Hartford, Connecticut. It includes her poem, "On the death of Zerlina Thorne," and a letter devoted to her efforts to meet Charles Dickens, a poem, "Welcome to Charles Dickens, Esq." which was read to him at a banquet in Hartford two days learlier; a signed holograph poem, "Friendship...
Dates: 1829 - 1855

L.H. Sigourney papers-addition 1

 Unprocessed — Folder: 1
Identifier: ViU-2021-0014

Lydia Huntley Sigourney letter--addition 2

 Unprocessed — Folder: 1
Identifier: ViU-2021-0075