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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Mad Poetess--sad sight. (search)
A Mad Poetess--sad sight. -- The daughter of Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, who frequently visited Richmond, disposing of her works, has become insane, and is now an inmate of an asylum in Washington city. A correspondent of the Home Journal who visited her, says: Cross-legged upon the round table, in the centre of the room, was seated a woman, perhaps thirty years of age, who had the remains of remarkable beauty; the finest of large, dark, wild eyes, and features which, though ghastly p, making an unintelligible and incoherent gabble. By her side lay a handsomely printed volume of a novel of her own writing, with her own likeness as a frontispiece, and she had gone crazy as an authoress? It was a daughter of the poet, Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, and she had started with great promise, publishing her first book in Boston. Both of her parents, it will be remembered, were of the over-imaginative class, and it proved that the two-fold inheritance of the gift was too much. But wha