Cartland family collection of photographs and ephemera of John Greenleaf Whittier, 1834-1930.

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Cartland family collection of photographs and ephemera of John Greenleaf Whittier, 1834-1930.

Includes pamphlets, calendars, cabinet photographs, genealogies, cartes-de-visite photographs, clippings, Whittier printed ephemera, and other material. Also includes a Whittier 1834 autograph fragment of a poem.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6698212

Houghton Library

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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...

Cartland family,

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Whittier was an American poet and abolitionist. The Cartlands of Lee, New Hampshire, were his cousins. From the description of Cartland family collection of photographs and ephemera of John Greenleaf Whittier, 1834-1930. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122386414 ...