Lizzie Borden Society Forum

Reading through the archives. I am learning alot. Hey does anybody know that "lesbian letter" she wrote and who she wrote it to? Didn't see who she wrote it too. Or just was there speculation about who it was meant for.

A photo of the "lesbian letter" as you call it can be found in Frank Spiering's book Lizzie.Well, I believe this is the letter you refer to I am not quite sure. The caption simply says "From Lizzie's letter to a female friend: " I dreamed of you the other night but I do not dare to put my dream on paper." This is the first source I thought of for finding the letter. It does not say the name of Lizzie's friend. I will have to look in other sources for it. I am not quite sure what he says about it in the book actually, because I get so disgusted when trying to read this book I put it down and have never finished it.But if you happen to have it you can look for it there. I have had the book for about 2 years, and have never made it past page 42.

i think it was to a dressmaker, but someone else can be more specific, i know.

See below about letter. It is not quite old enough for archives but is way back, as posted by augusta
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I was looking thru the archives, and saw an interesting thread that Kat had started a long time ago regarding the letter that Lizzie wrote beginning with "I dreamed of you last night but I dare not put my thoughts to paper...." (or words to that effect) And some people had used this letter to 'prove' that Lizzie was a lesbian. I particularly remember Frank Spiering writing of it, and it sounded like it, the way he wrote of it.

When I was at the FRHS last spring, Michael Martins showed me the letter in its entirety. (It is also in its entirety later on in the archived thread.) The letter - to me - didn't prove she was a lesbian at all.

As the thread eventually progressed, it was shown to be written by Lizzie to a Mrs. Cummings.

Michael told me that Mrs. Cummings was at that time a dressmaker of Lizzie's.

Just thought some of you might be interested in that being brought up again. I didn't catch if the thread revealed who Mrs. Cummings was. It just read like a simple letter of friendship, that's all.

in the v. museum http://www.lizzieandrewborden.com/sitemap.htm scroll down to new research, there's an article about Lizzie's rumored sexuality

I think that it all depends on how you read the letter. I think that if a person wants to lizzie as a lessie, thats how they are going to see her.