Replenishing the Shelves: Books Acquired

The following volumes have been acquired to re-create the Dickinson family libraries through generous contributions of financial gifts and rare volumes by many donors.

Beecher, Henry Ward. Star Papers: Experiences of Art and Nature. New York: Derby, 1855.

Beecher, Henry Ward . Life of Jesus the Christ. New York: Ford, 1871.

Beecher, Lyman. A Plea for the West. . . . Cincinnati: Truman & Smith; New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1835.

Bowles, Samuel. Across the Continent, A Summer’s Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States with Speaker Colfax. Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company; New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1865.

Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . . ., by Acton Bell [pseud.]. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858.

Brontë Charlotte. The Professor, A Tale, by Currer Bell [pseud.]. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1857.

Brontë, Charlotte . Villette, by Currer Bell.  [pseud.]. New York: Harper Brothers, 1853. (This copy was Sue’s, given her by Rev. Bartlett. The edition owned by Emily Dickinson is still being sought.)

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. New York; Boston: C.S. Francis & Co., 1857.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Poems of . . . . New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1852.

Browning, Robert. The Ring and the Book. Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1869. 2 volumes.

Cowper, William. Poems. Philadelphia: Kite, 1809.  2 volumes.

Cyclopedia of English Literature, in two volumes. Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1847.

de Quincey, Thomas. Autobiographic Sketches. . . . Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853.

de Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. . . . Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855.

de Quincey, Thomas. Essays on the Poets and other English Writers. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853.

Eliot, George [pseud.]. Adam Bede. New York: Harper, 1860.

Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1860.

Eliot, George. Scenes of Clerical Life…. Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1859.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. 2 volumes.

Herbert, George. The Poetical Works. . . . New York: Appleton, 1857.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Malbone: An Oldport Romance. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co. Gift of Walter Powell.

Holland, Josiah G. Gold-foil. . ., by Timothy Titcomb [pseud.]. New York: C. Scribner, 1859. Gift of Walter Powell.

Jackson, Helen Hunt.  Bits of Travel at Home, by H.H. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878.

Kane, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations. Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1857. 2 volumes.

à Kempis, Thomas. Of the Imitation of Christ: Four Books. London: Oxford, 1857.

Marvel, Ik [Donald Grant Mitchell]. Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons. New York: Charles Scribner, 1851.

Sabbath Hymn Book . . . Introduction by Edwards Amasa Parke. New York: Mason Brothers, 1858.

Stearns, William Augustus. Adjutant Stearns. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, c1862.  Gift of Jack Capps.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin . . . twenty-fifth thousand edition. Boston: J. P. Jewett; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. 2 volumes.

Tennyson, Alfred. In Memoriam. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.

Trelawny, Edward John. Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron.  Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859.

Tyler, W.S. History of Amherst College during its first half century, 1821-1871. Springfield, Mass.: Clark W. Bryan and Company, 1873.

Vaux, Calvert. Villas and Cottages. A series of designs prepared for execution in the United States. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1864.

Wisner, Benjamin B. Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Susan Huntington of Boston, Mass.  Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1826. Gift of Barton L. St. Armand.

Young, Edward. The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts. Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt and Son, 1845.

The Young Husband’s Book; A manual of the duties, moral, religious, and domestic, imposed by the relations of married life. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836.

U.S. 32d Congress, 2nd Session, 1852-1853. Obituary Addresses . . . on the occasion of the Death of the Hon. Daniel Webster. . . . Washington, D.C.: Robert Armstrong, 1853.

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