The Kansas Emigrants original unpublished manuscript undated; circa 1854

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The Kansas Emigrants original unpublished manuscript undated; circa 1854

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Attached to a leaf in this titled bound volume is John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, "The Kansas Emigrants," handwritten and signed by Whittier, together with his signed note of April 26 to the poem's unnamed recipient, addressed as "My Dear Friend." Included in the volume are typed transcriptions of the handwritten originals.

1 volume;

eng,

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kanas Collection

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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John Greenleaf Whittier was a wildly popular New England poet. A deeply committed and active abolitionist, he wrote many of his poems with a political agenda, although distinguished by an open-minded tolerance so often lacking in his fellow abolitionists. Although his works are somewhat marred by overtly political and overly sentimental works, the core of his output stands as fine, lyrical American verse. From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier letters, 1858 and 1876. (Pennsy...