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Start Over Creator Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

George Griffin papers, 1829/1855

0.04 Cubic Feet 1 legal sized folder.

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 with the Dead, Occasioned by the Recollections of Rev'd E.D. Griffin." Also included is "On the parting of the Rev'd E. D. Griffin with his Little Sister". Other highlights include 24 letters from theologian James Waddell Alexander to Caroline Griffin from 1845 to 1855.

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George Griffin papers, 1829/1855 0.04 Cubic Feet 1 legal sized folder.

Griffin, Caroline Lydia, 1820-1861

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 with the Dead, Occasioned by the Recollections of Rev'd E.D. Griffin." Also included is "On the parting of the Rev'd E. D. Griffin with his Little Sister". Other highlights include 24 letters from theologian James Waddell Alexander to Caroline Griffin from 1845 to 1855.

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