Kate Scott Turner

In September 2012, the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections unveiled this daguerreotype, proposing it to be Dickinson and her friend Kate Scott Turner; it has not been authenticated.

Catherine Mary Scott Turner (March 12, 1831 – 1917) was an American poet and a friend of poet Emily Dickinson. She was also known as Kate Anthon.

Overview Catherine Mary ("Kate") Scott was the daughter of Henry Scott of Cooperstown, New York. The women remained friends until Susan's death

In 1855, she married Campbell Ladd Turner, who died in 1857 of tuberculosis. Turner was acquainted with Emily Dickinson through Susan, and they remained so until the mid-1860s.

Emily Dickinson She met Emily Dickinson in 1859. From that time until about 1862, Dickinson sent her four poems. One poem was sent with a pair of garters that Dickinson had knitted for her: