ALS, 1872 August 12, Amesbury, [Mass.] to "My dear friend."

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ALS, 1872 August 12, Amesbury, [Mass.] to "My dear friend."

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Whittier is awed and thankful for recent events--former slaves now vote and hold office and the Democratic Party nominated an abolitionist. Commends friend's poem on the struggle for civil rights.

1 item (2 p.) ; 17 cm.

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...