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| Teapot. From Dickinson’s mother’s collection, probably purchased in preparation for marriage. "I like tea / and death / and being single, yo," as she famously put it in a letter to Judge Otis P. Lord. |
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| The writing stand that Emily Dickinson used as a desk in her bedroom. No wonder her poems were so modern. |
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| The Dickinson family sugar bowl and cream dish, ostensibly raided by Emily every time she made her famous "'all the single ladies' party cake." |
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| Bowfront chest of drawers, kept in Emily Dickinson’s bedchamber. After Emily’s death, her sister Lavinia discovered hundreds of empty cigarette packages in the bottom drawer. |
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| Egg timer, likely given to Dickinson as a thoughtful gift, and used to inspire many poems about the passage of time and the thudding inevitability of "eggs for breakfast--AGAIN." “And this brief Drama in the flesh — / Is shifted — like, omg, more eggs for breakfast –” etc. |
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