MEMORANDA AND DOCUMENTS 301 ment with Williams from April until November 1864. time she boarded in Cambridgeport, a Cambridge neighbo Central Square, with her young cousins Louise and France A year later, from spring until fall 1865, Dickinson soug treatment from Dr. Williams, under the same circumstan No mention is made of a disturbing eye condition prior ber 1863 in any letter or biographical note. In July 1862 scribed her eyes to literary mentor Thomas Wentworth" like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves-" wit ence to any illness (L268). About August of that same yea allude to any difficulty of her own when recommending mate Samuel Bowles that he rest his eyes (L272). In al son wrote the Norcross cousins in mid September 1863 doing fine needlework:" I finish mama's sacque, all but th ing"(L286), and a second letter of early October, if it trusted, reports that she is reading" the South Sea ros writing Higginson the following spring, however, she pi tember 1863 as the onset of her eye condition:" I was tember, and since April, in Boston, for a Physician's On this evidence, it seems reasonable to suppose that h tion gave premonitory signs toward the end of Septembe came more severe in late fall, and led her to seek advice late January 1864.