ALS, 1883 July 4 : Amesbury, Mass. to "my dear friend."

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ALS, 1883 July 4 : Amesbury, Mass. to "my dear friend."

Lauds a young woman, Hattie Pitman, stating, probably in jest, that he relinquishes his claim on her and congratulates the friend on his approaching marriage to Pitman.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6942356

Haverford College 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...

Pitman, Hattie.

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