Cartland family, collector.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American poet and abolitionist. He was born into a Quaker family in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

The Cartlands of Lee, N.H., were also Quakers, and were cousins of the poet Whittier. Moses Austin Cartland (1805-1863) was a schoolmaster and journalist. His wife was Mary Page Gove and son was Charles Sumner Cartland. Moses' brother Joseph Cartland (1810-1898) was also an educator. With his wife Gertrude Whittier Cartland (1822-1911), Joseph was principal of Moses Brown School in Providence, R.I. (1855-1860). Based on the numerous annotations on the versos of these items, this material at one time belonged to the Cartland family.

From the guide to the Cartland family collection of photographs and ephemera of John Greenleaf Whittier, 1834-1930., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)