BIB_ID
120336
Accession number
MA 519
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
[1857] Oct. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 v. (5 p.), bound ; 17.9, 24.7 cm
Notes
A title, "The Spectres of Cape Ann," is crossed out at the top of the second page of the manuscript; Whittier includes a note to his editor on the verso of the final page.
There are 3 slips of alterations pasted over 3 stanzas.
Whittier has dated the manuscript "Amesbury, 10th mo. 12th" and does not provide the year; the poem was published in The National Era on October 22, 1857.
There are 3 slips of alterations pasted over 3 stanzas.
Whittier has dated the manuscript "Amesbury, 10th mo. 12th" and does not provide the year; the poem was published in The National Era on October 22, 1857.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society in 1908.
Summary
Being twenty-three four-line stanzas written on the recto of page 1, the recto and verso of page 2 and the recto of page 3, with a note written on the verso of page 3.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (33.9 cm)
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