Letter, 1885 December 4, Boston : [to E.F. Strickland, Benton Harbor, Michigan].

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Letter, 1885 December 4, Boston : [to E.F. Strickland, Benton Harbor, Michigan].

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Autograph signed letter written by James Russell Lowell in response to a request for an autograph from E.F. Strickland. The one page letter includes the final stanza of Lowell's poem "Stanzas on Freedom," which the letter says was a passage enclosed in Mrs. Strickland's original letter to him. The page is signed "J.R. Lowell." Edward F. Strickland was a clergyman in Benton Harbor, Michigan who often wrote to famous people for their autographs. Strickland's collection of autographs of famous women is in the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.

[1] leaf ; 18 cm.

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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

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Poet and author, Cornell University non-resident professor. From the description of James Russell Lowell letter and portrait, 1871 July 12. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 123412650 Lowell was an author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat. He edited The Atlantic Monthly, and with Charles Eliot Norton, The North American Review ; was professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard; and U.S. minister to Spain and to England. Aldrich was ...

Strickland, Edward

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