A signed letter from 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Sylvia Plath to her mother.

• Sylvia Plath (American).
• One leaf, recto and verso, on light blue Smith College stationery.
• Framed with contemporaneous black-and-white photograph of Plath.

Sylvia Plath (1932–63) matriculated at Smith College in the fall of 1950, and quickly formed a tight bond with her roommate, Marcia Brown (1932–2012). In the winter of 1951, Plath and Brown visited the latter's maternal aunt, Harriet Bosworth, in Franc♔estown, New Hampshire, a trip that clearly enthralled Plath, who writes in the first paragraph, "It is now midnight Sunday night and I have gotten back from the nicest weekend I ever had!" She continues:

"Marcia and I got up at 10 and had a lovely liesurely [sic] breakfast in the front living room of the dear little house. Then we went out into the most beautiful world imagineable [sic]! Snow had fallen in a fine powder las🌺t night, and the sun was out in a snow-blue sky. A white-New-England church is so lovely — and it was one of those heavenly dry-cold days, with 📖blinding sun and snow and sharp blue shadows. The air was swimmingly blue."

Plath goes on to recount skiing for the first time — "I have never been so thrilled in my life!" — and while noting "the modest little gently rolling hill💦… was not Sun Valley,𝓀" stated that, "Skiing, if you can do it well, must be pretty close to feeling like God." She closes with, "to bed & my six hour day tomorrow — your happy girl, Sylvia."

Plath and Brown maintained their close friendship until Sylvia's suicide in 1963. Brown is mentioned multiple times in Plath's journals, and the poet sent her more than 20 letters, all of which are currently housed in the Sylvia Plath Collection at Smith. Plath also incorporated Brown into two poems, the first being "The Babysitters" (1961), which recounts a summer both girls worked as nannies in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and the second an unpublished pieced titled "Marcia," in which Plꦆath writes, "she will be always as now: cheeks appleshining translucent from soapandwater scrubbing. she will be always sight of market in the morning: red cheek of beet and radish squashyellow hair and mirrored purpleblack of eggplant eye laced with celerysilver lashes, vegetable and vital."