BIB_ID
378032
Accession number
MA 1304.5
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
1840 Mar 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Saml. J. May / S. Scituate / Mass."
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of autograph manuscripts and letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1304 for details.
With trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of autograph manuscripts and letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1304 for details.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Remarking that he has been "at home some three weeks -- and the absence of excitement has contributed to render [his] state of health more comfortable"; discussing the abolition movement and noting that he "cannot see eye to eye with [William Lloyd] Garrison & Mrs. [Maria Weston] Chapman"; arguing that "there is a dictatorial, ... intolerant spirit about them"; wishing he could accept May's invitation to visit Scituate; lamenting the loss of Dr. [Joseph] Parrish of Philadelphia and writing lines to commemorate him.
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