Letter, ca. 1880.

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Letter, ca. 1880.

Handwritten and signed letter written on Nov. 3 in an unknown year, at Amesbury. Whittier asks to see a proof of a poem he has written.

1 item (1 leaf).

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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...