Today is Emily Dickinson's birthday (10 December 1830), so I made sure to read two more letters from Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell's edition of her collected letters. They were written in Amherst in October 1851 to her brother Austin, who was teaching school in Boston. Dickinson's letters to Austin are especially full of her wit, as when she mentions her eagerness to see his new hat: "Father says you wear a white hat, cocked up at the sides - know I shall like it's looks and want so much to see it - as for the wearer, I want to see him too - but which the most - prithee?" (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 10 December 2024)
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