Dealer Asking $300 for Gate to Poet’s Grave

An ornate wrought-iron gate that guarded the New England cemetery plot of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson has been found at an antique shop after being missing for two decades, a Dickinson descendant said.

Robert Magovern, president of the Dickinson Family Assn., said he wanted to bring the gate, which disappeared in the mid-1980s, back to Amherst, Mass., as soon as possible.

He said he would even pay the $300 an antiques dealer was asking for the piece when it was recognized at the dealer’s store in Newfane, Vt., about 50 miles north of Amherst.

Most of Dickinson’s poems were published after she died in 1886.