\"Sweet Singer of Hartford\" Lydia Sigourney Hand Signed 3.5X5.5 Page Dated 1824 For Sale

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\"Sweet Singer of Hartford\" Lydia Sigourney Hand Signed 3.5X5.5 Page Dated 1824:
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Up for sale the "Sweet Singer of Hartford" Lydia Sigourney 3.5X5.5 Signed Page Dated 1854. 

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (September

1, 1791 – June 10, 1865), née Lydia Howard Huntley, was

an American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known

as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford". Most of

her works were published with just her married name Mrs. Sigourney.

Mrs. Sigourney was born in Norwich, Connecticut to

Ezekiel Huntley and Zerviah Wentworth. Their only child, she was named after

her father's first wife, Lydia Howard, who had died soon after marrying

Ezekiel. In her autobiography Letters of Life Sigourney

describes her relation to her parents, her decision to care for them, and her

intent to avoid marriage because it would interfere with this relationship. I

had . . . reason for avoiding serious advances. My mind was made up never to

leave my parents. I felt that their absorbing love could never be repaid by the

longest life-service, and that the responsibility of an only child, their sole

prop and solace, would be strictly regarded by Him who readeth the heart. I had

seen aged people surrounded by indifferent persons, who considered their care a

burden, and could not endure the thought that my tender parents, who were

without near relatives, should be thrown upon the fluctuating kindness of

hirelings and strangers. To me, my father already seemed aged, though scarcely

sixty; and I said, in my musing hours, Shall he, who never denied me aught, or

spoke to me otherwise than in love-tones, stretch forth his hands in their

weakness, "and find none to gird him"? (241). She was With her friend

Nancy Maria Hyde, Sigourney opened a school for young ladies in Norwich in 1811 The school was forced to close when

Hyde became ill and was no longer able to teach. After the close of the Norwich

school, she conducted a similar school in Hartford in the home of Daniel

Wadsworth from 1814 until 1819. Frances Manwaring Caulkins entered

the Norwich school in September 1811, and remained a very warm friend and

frequent correspondent with Sigourney thereafter.

When

she was quite young, one of her neighbors, the Widow Lathrop, was friendly with

her and encouraged her to develop. After her friend Madam Lathrop died, Lydia

was sent to visit Mrs. Jeremiah Wadsworth, an acquaintance of the Widow Lathrop

in [Hartford, Connecticut]. This visit put her in contact with Daniel Wadsworth. Daniel helped her set up a school for girls,

arranging for daughters of his friends to attend. In 1815, he also helped

her publish her first work, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse,

arranging the publishing and performing the initial editing himself. Sigourney

described Wadsworth as her "kind patron" and says that he "took upon himself the

whole responsibility of contracting publishers, gathering subscriptions, and

even correcting the proof sheets".She goes on to say that "He

delighted in drawing a solitary mind from obscurity into a freer atmosphere and

brighter sunbeam".

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