Bruce E. Graver collection on John G. Whittier Bruce E. Graver collection on John G. Whittier 1831-1890

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Bruce E. Graver collection on John G. Whittier Bruce E. Graver collection on John G. Whittier 1831-1890

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RPPC-whittier&view=title

The collection is comprised of a series of letters composed by John G. Whittier, 19th century newspapers, and various publications of his poetry and writings.

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Phillips Memorial Library, Special and Archival Collections

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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...