Writings by Susan Dickinson: Old Amherst

Watching
Watching with the sick as I look
back ~~for[?]~~ was held too natural
a duty to even speak of - young and
old took the place of night watchers
in sick emergencies - Quite early in
life I showed a knack with the sick
and tried it somewhat enthusiastically --
A night of length and stillness
in the sick room of Mrs. Moore
widow of the first Pres of Am Coll
his/he's but like a steel-plate engraving
in my memory - She lived in what
came to be known as the Bentley
House but then the President's house
In the manner of the time four square
rooms and a wide long hall un-
warmed & uncarpeted was the

H bMS Am 1118.95, Box 9


	Image reproduced by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Not to be reproduced in whole or in part without permission. Transcription and commentary copyright 1998 by Martha Nell Smith, Laura Elyn Lauth, and Lara Vetter, all rights reserved Maintained by Rebecca Mooney <rnmooney@umd.edu> Last updated on January 25, 2008