Diary, 10 September-19 September 1878.

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Diary, 10 September-19 September 1878.

Diary of a visit to Bear Camp River House in West Ossipee, New Hampshire. Writer was an attorney from Amesbury, Massachusetts, and was accompanied by John Greenleaf Whittier as both were suffering from lung disease and were trying to recuperate. Diary includes daily occurances and discussion of poetry and events. Also included are three letters of Currier to his brother in 1878 discussing business and two letters, 1933, from an individual sending diary to a nephew of Currier.

1 v. ; 21 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7122197

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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...

Currier, Horace H., 1837?-1879.

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