[Letter] : 1889 Feb[ruary] 8, Danvers [Mass. to] Lizzie [Elizabeth Whittier Pickard?].

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[Letter] : 1889 Feb[ruary] 8, Danvers [Mass. to] Lizzie [Elizabeth Whittier Pickard?].

He has written a poem for the inauguration Centennial in New York ("The vow of Washington") ; books he has been reading ; family matters.

[3] p. ; 17 x 12 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8355737

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...

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