Letter : Amesbury, Mass. to James Fields, 1865 Nov. 3.

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Letter : Amesbury, Mass. to James Fields, 1865 Nov. 3.

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Letter dated "3d 11th mo. 1865", with salutation "My dear F." and signed "Thine truly J.G.W." Whittier asks whether it is too late to change some text on p. 46 of Snow-bound, following the line "Where drawn by Nature's subtlest law". He offers two versions, one of two lines, "Haply the watchful young men saw / Sweet doorway pictures &c.", which would entail reduction by two lines; if that should prove too difficult, he suggests two more lines to precede those, "The fond constraint which none elude, / Life's zest & pleased disquietude, ...". Whittier's preferred two-line version appears in the text as published in the first edition (1866).

1 item ([1] p.) ; 19 x 25 cm, folded to 19 x 13 cm.

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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...

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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