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Collection of letters and manuscripts related to James Russell Lowell, 1858-1891.

BIB_ID
287745
Accession number
MA 568.1-21
Display Date
1858-1891.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (21 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 30.9 cm
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
Summary
Collection consists of James Russell Lowell's autograph manuscript poem "The Trustee's Lament" (MA 568.1) and 8 autograph letters signed (MA 568.2-9). Collection also contains an essay by William Hayes Ward eulogizing Lowell (MA 568.10). Letters and manuscripts in the the collection have been described in individual catalog records; see related records for more information. With 11 engravings.