One of the final times Dickinson traveled out of the family estate, she spent April to November of 1864 in Cambridge, MA receiving treatment for a debilitating eye condition by the area’s opthamologist, Dr. Henry Willard Williams.
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(This is a contribution of Alexis Stefanick)