Carlton and Territa A. Lowenberg, Collection on Dickinson

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Preferred Citation: Carlton and Territa Lowenberg, Collection on Dickinson (MS 090). Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries.

Carlton and Territa Lowenberg spent years of their lives avidly collecting materials that relate to the poet Emily Dickinson. Their enthusiasm for Dickinson and her work assisted in the creation of the collection. The Lowenbergs collaborated with Carla L. Brown to create the work Emily Dickinson's Textbooks. Carlton Lowenberg also wrote Musicians Wrestle Everywhere: Emily Dickinson and Music.

Scope and Content: 

The Lowenberg Collection consists of materials relating to the life and literary work of Emily Dickinson. It includes selected copies of manuscripts, pamphlets, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and items dealing with Dickinson's life, her family, friends, associates, and mentors. Many of the items are associated with Dickinson's community and the time period in which she lived. Materials in the collection also document the Lowenberg's work in gathering the collection together. The Lowenberg Collection has been arranged alphabetically by the title of a work, journal, or published document, an individual name, or a place name, and by the type of item. A wide variety of materials are often represented within this arrangement. There are no original materials created by Dickinson in the collection.

Subjects: 

Bianchi, Martha Dickinson, 1866-1943

Bingham, Millicent (Todd) 1880-

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Books and reading

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Knowledge and learning

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Musical settings -- Bibliography

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 -- Correspondence

Textbooks -- Massachusetts -- Amherst -- History -- 19th century

Textbooks -- United States -- Bibliography

Within the Lowenberg collection is a set of correspondence written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911). There are thirty letters that range from the year 1869 until 1910. The letters were sent to Higginson's friends and acquaintances, such as Marion Talbot and James Redpath, and discuss his activities with various associations and his work with women colleagues on reforms. The Higginson materials are located in Box 26, Folder 6 of the Lowenberg Collection.

Please contact the repository for a complete finding aid.

Box 1.  Folder 1. Adams, Charles Francis, address, 1875, July 7

An address delivered at Amherst before the members of the Social Union, published by Riverside Press.

Box 1.  Folder 2. Advertisements, Dickinson

Item 1. The "No Name Series" published by Roberts Brothers, publishers ads and commentaries

Item 2. Newspaper clipping ad, "Emily Dickinson is Dead" Jane Langton

Item 3. "The Month at Goodspeed's," vol. 17, no. 8, 1946, May

Item 4. Publisher's Weekly, with a note by Paul S. Nathan regarding filming of Austin and Mabel, 1984, Aug. 17

Box 1.  Folder 3. American Journal of Education, handwritten notes

Box 1.  Folder 4.  American Literature, vol. 38, no. 1, 1966, Mar.

Item 1. Higgins, David J. M., "Twenty-Five poems by Emily Dickinson: Unpublished Variant Versions"

Box 1.  Folder 5. Amherst Academy catalogues, photocopies, 1816-1818, 1821-1825

Box 1.  Folder 6. Amherst Academy catalogues, textbook pages, photocopies, 1826-1834, 1839-1843, 1847-1851, 1858

Box 1.  Folder 7. Amherst Academy photographs, photocopies

Box 1.  Folder 8. Amherst College, charter petition facsimile, 1816

Box 1.  Folder 9. Amherst College, memo, 1848, Aug. 17

A. W. Fiske memo stating that "William Hunting is a member of the class about to recieve the first degree from this College...."

Box 1.  Folder 10. Amherst College

Item 1. "Initiation Songs,", Alpha Sigma Phi, 1857

Item 2. program, "Junior Exhibition," 1859

Item 3. program, "Songs at the Reception of Prof. Snell," 1858, Oct. 25

Item 4. Amherst Graduates Quarterly, letter from E. P. Crowell

Box 1.  Folder 11. Amherst College, commencement program, 1869, July 8

Box 1.  Folder 12. Amherst College, 1880-1889

Tuck, Edward Arthur, Memorabilia, course lists, gym, library, college forms etc.(Amherst Student, Class 1885). [work on item level information]

Box 1.  Folder 13. Amherst College, 1962

Greetings for the New Year, with picture of Homestead and Poem by ED 1962. Guide to Amherst College, about 1970

Box 1.  Folder 14. Amherst College, unidentified reminiscenses, undated

Box 1.  Folder 15. Amherst College, bibliography

Sabin, Joseph "Dictionary of Books relating to America"Amherst entries noted. Bibliography of Amherst pamphlets.

Box 1.  Folder 16. Amherst College, catalogue textbook pages (photocopies), 1820-1829

Box 1.  Folder 17. Amherst College, catalogue textbook pages (photocopies), 1830-1839

Box 1.  Folder 18. Amherst College, catalogue (photocopies) , 1840-1849

Box 1.  Folder 19. Amherst College, catalogue textbook pages (photocopies), 1840-1849

Box 1.  Folder 20. Amherst College, program, Senior Hop, 1909, Feb. 27

Box 1.  Folder 20. Amherst College, catalogue, 1840-1849

Box 1.  Folder 21. Amherst College Library, brochures, fine notices

Box 1.  Folder 22. Amherst College Library, "Catalog of Books Belonging to the Amherst Library," 1827

Box 1.  Folder 23. Amherst College Magazine, "editorial talk," (photocopy), 1862, June

Box 1.  Folder 24. Amherst College, "The Olio" miscellaneous pages

Box 1.  Folder 25. Amherst College, lecture notes, 1885

Box 1.  Folder 26. Amherst, Massachusetts, miscellenous pamphlets, maps

Box 1.  Folder 27. Amherst, Massachusetts, land sale deed, Baxter Dickinson, Austin Loomis, 1825, Apr. 9

Box 1.  Folder 28. Amherst, Massachusetts, newspaper clippings

Box 1.  Folder 29. Andover, Massachusetts, articles, history and vital records

Box 1.  Folder 30. Andrews and Stoddards Grammar, article reference

Box 1.  Folder 31. St. Armand, children's books bibliography, 1985

Box 2.  Folder 1.  Atlantic Monthly 1927, June, 1929, Feb.

Box 2.  Folder 2.  Atlantic Monthly 1929, Mar.

Box 2.  Folder 3.  The Atlantic 1935, June, Nov.

Box 2.  Folder 4.  The Atlantic 1947, Mar.

Box 2.  Folder 5. Badger, Mrs. C.M. "Wildflowers Drawn and Colored from Nature,"book description, 1947, Mar.

Box 2.  Folder 6. Banister, Zilpah P. Grant,"Character and Reminiscences"New York Observer

Box 2.  Folder 7. Beecher, Lyman

Item 1. "Reformation of Morals Practicle and Indispensable,"sermon delivered at New-Haven, 1812, Oct. 27

Item 2. "The Bible a code of Laws," a sermon delivered at the ordination of Sereno Edwards Dwight, 1817, Sept. 3

Box 2.  Folder 8. "Belle of Amherst" William Luce, production notice

Box 2.  Folder 9. Bianchi, Martha Gilbert Dickinson, correspondence, poetry

Item 1. Letter to Mary Lee Hall, mentions  A Modern Prometheus 1908, Jan. 11 (?)

Item 2. Letter to Mary Lee Hall, mentions errors in her book and reviews, undated

Item 3. Letter to Mrs. Conant, mentions Emily Dickinson, undated

Item 4. Letter to Mrs. Hopkins, written from Villa Lilas Blanc, Nice, 1915, Feb.

Item 5. "Luber-Duft(Fragrance - Magic), "manuscript poem, with Bianchi's signature, published in Gabrielle and Other Poems

Item 6. To-Night, manuscript poem, with Bianchi's signature, published in Gabrielle and Other Poems

Item 7. Letters to Harold G. Rugg, Baker Memorial Library, Dartmouth College, mentions Emily Dickinson, Samuel Fowler Dickison, and requests materials, photocopies, 1935, Oct. 10, 1936, June 23, 1944, Jan. 19

Item 8. Offprint, "A Prayer for Tonight," Phi Delta Gamma Journal, 1943, Apr.

Item 9. newspaper clipping, "The Wrestler" written for the Congregationalist

Item 10. newspaper clipping, G. A. Taylor, "Memories of Mrs. Bianchi," 1943, Jan. 3

Item 11. Newspaper clippings, poems and reviews

Box 2.  Folder 10. Bibliomania, rare book and auction catalogs

Box 2.  Folder 11. Bingham, Millicent Todd

Item 1. Letter to Miss Thompson, mentions Ancestors' Brocades.

Item 2. Letter to Mr. Hutchinson, Dover Publications

Item 3. Millicent Todd Bingham silhouette, Grolier Club meeting announcement, 1945, Oct. 18

Item 4. Newspaper clippings, obituaries

Item 5. "Emily Dickinson's daguerreotype" biographical notes, Emily Dickinson's Home (photocopies)

Box 2.  Folder 12. Bingham, Millicent Todd, guide to Todd papers, Yale University, 1979, May

Box 2.  Folder 13. Boltwood, Lucius, obituary, 1873, July 2

"Obituary Record of Graduates of Williams College" presented at the Alumni meeting, the Lucius Boltwood entry mentions S. F. Dickinson.

Box 2.  Folder 12. "Bronte,"William Luce, production advertisement,  San Francisco Chronicle, 1988, Jan. 3