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Images courtesy of Special Collections & Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library A MAN OF ENORMOUS ERUDTITION, vision, energy and personal charm, William Smith Clark may also, as historian Ruth Owen Jones M.A. ’86 concludes, have been the inspiration for some of poet Emily Dickinson’s most powerful work. In doing research for a biography of Clark, Jones has spent much time in the W. E. B. DuBois Library’s Special Collections and Archives, a treasure trove of materials relating to the life of our first sitting president. From that wonderful collection, we reproduce three images of Clark. At top left, the disarmingly handsome young man as he appeared, clean-shaven, in his early twenties. At top right, a classic image of Clark in maturity, the accomplished man of science and founder of the Massachusetts Agricultural College and Sapporo Agricultural College. Artist/editor Elizabeth Pols chose the image at bottom left as the source for her oil painting of Clark that appears on page 25. Dating from about 1868, it shows us the man as he must have appeared shortly after Dickinson wrote the Master letters and poems to him – or to another muse.

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