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Caroline Ticknor, Letter, 1922, in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Accession #9441-a, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was transferred to Special Collections on November 8, 1995.
Ticknor, Jamaica, Massachusetts, writes to a Mrs. Taylor. She hopes that Taylor's broken bone is mending rapidly, sends her a copy of her book Poe's Helen (now located in Rare Books, 1916, PS3189.W4Z9), describes her stay at Plymouth, "I love the old town and adore studying the graves of my ancestors, a taste which cannot be understood by any of my family, who think it is a waste of time to focus attention upon the past when there is so much in the present to busy oneself with," and mentions meeting an invalid lady, Miss Whitman (a niece of John Winslow Whitman who had married Sarah Helen Whitman) who owned the original of the portrait reproduced in Ticknor's book