In June 1852, Edward Dickinson, the poet Emily Dickinson's father, attended the Whig National Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, that nominated General Winfield Scott for President in the election that November. While there, Dickinson delivered a letter of 11 June from Emily to her friend Susan Gilbert (who would later marry Emily's brother Austin four years later), in which Emily complained about the distance between her home in Amherst and Baltimore, where Susan was a teacher: "I dont like this country at all, and I shan't stay here any longer! 'Delenda est' America Massachusetts and all!" Little did Edward know that his daughter cultivated such revolutionary sentiments as "America must be destroyed!" (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 28 May 2025)