John Greenleaf Whittier letters and poem, 1868-1879.

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John Greenleaf Whittier letters and poem, 1868-1879.

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Whittier writes from Danvers [Mass.] to an unknown recipient on "11 Mo[nth] 6 1879" remarking of his pleasure on hearing that a new edition of The Reminiscences of Levi Coffin would be published. Of the book he says, "It is one the world's great autobiographies, the record of heroic adventure & noble self-sacrifice in the cause of humanity." [Formerly laid into Penn State's copy of Whittier's The Stranger in Lowell (Boston: Waite, Peirce, 1845).] In another letter he writes to Charles and Maria Coffin from Boston, regretting that he was not at home when they called on "3rd day, Morning." The letter dates to the period after 1876 as it mentions his cousin Caroline and being home in Danvers. The collection also includes an undated manuscript poem, The Clear vision, with a note: "This is to go into the May number of the Atlantic. Let it be the first poem in the number." [Subsequently published in the Atlantic monthly, May 1868, vol. 21, issue 127.]

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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