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By Daniel Dulany Addison
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A biographical collection assembles letters, diary selections, and reminiscences to trace a New England poet's life from childhood through prairie pioneering, teaching, editorial work, and late literary output. Chapters follow early years, prairie and log-cabin experiences, schoolmistress duties, teaching and editorial engagements, wartime correspondence, intellectual and religious reflections, and final years, highlighting a spiritual journey from rigorous theology toward a more personal faith. The editor supplies context and selected correspondence to illuminate inner struggles, friendships, literary practices, and devotional convictions.

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Title: Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary

Author: Daniel Dulany Addison

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Language: English

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Miss Larcom’s Books.

POETICAL WORKS. Household Edition. With Portrait, 12mo, $1.50; full gilt, $2.00.

POEMS. 16mo, $1.25.

AN IDYL OF WORK. 16mo, $1.25.

WILD ROSES OF CAPE ANN, AND OTHER POEMS. 16mo, gilt top, $1.25.

CHILDHOOD SONGS. Illustrated, 12mo, $1.00.

EASTER GLEAMS. Poems. 16mo, parchment paper, 75 cents.

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. 16mo, $1.00.

AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE, and other Songs of Faith. 16mo, $1.00.

THE UNSEEN FRIEND. 16mo, $1.00.

A NEW ENGLAND GIRLHOOD, outlined from Memory. In Riverside Library for Young People. 16mo, 75 cents.

Holiday Edition. 16mo, $1.25.

BREATHINGS OF THE BETTER LIFE. Edited by Lucy Larcom. 18mo, $1.25.

ROADSIDE POEMS FOR SUMMER TRAVELLERS. Selected by Lucy Larcom. 18mo, $1.00.

HILLSIDE AND SEASIDE IN POETRY. Selected by Lucy Larcom. 18mo, $1.00.

BECKONINGS FOR EVERY DAY. A Collection of Quotations for each day in the year. Compiled by Lucy Larcom. 16mo, $1.00.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY,
Boston and New York.

LUCY LARCOM
LIFE, LETTERS, AND DIARY

BY
DANIEL DULANY ADDISON

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1895

Copyright, 1894,
By DANIEL DULANY ADDISON.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.