Correspondence. 1830-1848.

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Correspondence. 1830-1848.

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Principally letters from Hoit to his parents discussing family matters and his career as a painter. Some reflections on Canadian politics during a stay in Frederickton, New Brunswick in 1838; letter describing Rome in 1843; letter (Feb. 13, 1848) describing painting a portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier.

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Dartmouth 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...

Hoit, Daniel, 1778-1859.

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Hoit, Albert Gallatin, 1809-1856

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