Emily Dickinson’s cousin Louise Norcross describes Emily writing in the pantry.

“And I know that Emily Dickinson wrote most emphatic things in the pantry, so cool and quiet, while she skimmed the milk; because I sat on the footstool behind the door, in delight, as she read them to me. The blinds were closed, but through the green slats she saw all those fascinating ups and downs going on outside that she wrote about.”

Louise Norcross, in a letter to Charlotte Perkins Gilman at the Boston’s Woman Journal 1904.

For the full letter see the post by Ben Friedlander at https://ampoarchive.wordpress.com/tag/louisa-norcross/

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