Warren Prince Scrapbook, 1873-1886.

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Warren Prince Scrapbook, 1873-1886.

Entire scrapbook is a collection of newspaper articles, many of which were written by Warren Prince of Beverly, Massachusetts. Two repeated columns written by him were titled "The Pioneers of the Seashore" and "Boyhood Reminiscenses" written for the Beverly Citizen. Articles also came from the Salem Gazette of Salem, Massachusetts. A significant portion of the scrapbook is devoted to poetry written by multiple authors including John Greenleaf Whittier, Celia Thaxter, Mary Prince Story, and Benjamin Webber.

1 box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8129227

Peabody Essex Museum

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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...

Webber, Benjamin.

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Story, Mary Prince.

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Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894

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American poet and water-colorist. From the description of Letters, 1872-1894. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233101484 Celia Laighton Thaxter was an American poet and essayist who lived much of her life in the Isles of Shoals, at first on White Island and later in a large cottage her brothers built for their parents on the island of Appledore, in which she eventually died. The family ran a hotel, Appledore House, which, along with Celia's cottage, burned...

Prince, Warren

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