MANUSCRIPT: AC. Ink. Dated: Sunday evening. Addressed on the fold: Austin. W. Dickinson./Sunderland./Mass. Postmarked: Amherst MS. Oct. 28.

PUBLICATION: Home 109-110.

Austin was graduated from Amherst College in August 1850, and in September went to teach at Sunderland, a few miles away north of Amherst. He had already become interested in Susan Gilbert, whose "exit" ED predicts. His letters to Sue from Sunderland are extant (HCL).