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Mabel Loomis Todd (1856-1932), correspondent “That without suspecting it you should send me the preferred flower of life, seems almost supernatural.” – Emily Dickinson to Mabel Loomis Todd, late September 1882 (L769)
Mabel Loomis Todd (1856-1932) Editor, author, public speaker, artist, musician, conservationist. To the extent she’s remembered in the 21st century, Mabel Loomis Todd is most known for her associations with members of the Dickinson family of Amherst, Massachusetts: as one of Emily Dickinson’s first editors, or for her long-term extra ...
The Mabel Loomis Todd Papers consist of over fifty linear feet of manuscript and printed material relating to the public and private life of Mabel Loomis Todd. Divided into eight series, the papers document each phase of Mrs. Todd's career, beginning with her early childhood and ending with her death in 1932.
Born 10 November 1856, Cambridge, Massachusetts; died 14 October 1932, Hog Island, Muscongus, Maine. Daughter of Eben J. and Mary Wilder Loomis; married David Todd, 1879; children: one. Mabel Loomis Todd, an only child, was a descendant of Priscilla and John Alden of Plymouth Colony.
Mabel Loomis Todd. (1856—1932) Quick Reference. (1856–1932), Massachusetts author, wife of David Peck Todd, professor of astronomy at Amherst, came to know Emily Dickinson, and, with T. W. Higginson, edited two series of her friend's Poems (1890–91). She alone edited a third series (1896) and the Letters of Emily Dickinson (2 vols., 1894).
Mabel Loomis Todd or Mabel Loomis was an American editor and writer. She is remembered as the editor of posthumously published editions of Emily Dickinson's poetry and letters and also wrote several novels and books about her travels with her husband, astronomer David Peck Todd, as well as co-authoring a textbook on astronomy.
Lavinia Dickinson knew Mabel Loomis Todd to be creative, energetic, and well-connected in literary and cultural circles, so in her haste to see the poems published she ultimately brought them to Mabel. ... With Lavinia’s help, Todd rounded up Dickinson’s vast correspondence with friends for a two-volume Letters of Emily Dickinson, published ...
