Boston Literary District Map
The map shows both event and program spaces located throughout the Literary District where readings, conferences, and other literary gatherings take place, and historic literary sites. Feel like taking a leisurely walk past the homes of Robert Frost and Henry James? Click on District Historic Sites. Want to see where writers’ conferences, readings, book festivals, signings, and workshops take place? Click on Event Programming.
Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College
The Emily Dickinson collection includes original poems, manuscripts, and letters from Dickinson to family and friends, spanning her life from 1830 to 1886, as well as numerous rough drafts and fragments of her poems.
Emily Dickinson Collection, 1862-1907 (Boston Public Library, Digital Commowealth)
This collection contains approximately 70 letters and 43 poems sent by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911). In 1862, Emily Dickinson responded to an article by Thomas Wentworth Higginson entitled "Letter to a Young Contributor," which formed a personal and professional relationship between the two and resulted in the first-time publication of many of Dickinson's poems.
Emily Dickinson archive : an open-access website for the manuscripts of Emily Dickinson.
Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson's surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives.
Emily Dickinson Archive, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Key Features of Emily Dickinson Archive
Find poems easily with multiple index and reference tools; Study the poet’s own handwriting, variants, and arrangement of her work;
Read and compare editions, word choice, and transcriptions through time;
Engage in new scholarship using tools for creating annotations, transcriptions, and reading lists
Robert Frost Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University
Donated to the University by Paul C. Richards in honor of his parents, the Frost Collection, one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive, contains literary manuscripts, notebooks, letters, books, proof copies, journals, Christmas cards and many types of memorabilia.
Robert Pinsky Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University
The Robert Pinsky collection contains includes printed materials, correspondence, photographs, and film and video.