BIB_ID
378089
Accession number
MA 1304.8
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
[1845?] Dec. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope is addressed to "Mr. Alden B. Morse / West Amesbury / Mass." and has a postmark and part of a postage stamp. Because the letter also has an address and postmark, it is likely that the envelope accompanied a different letter.
Letter is addressed to "Alden B. Morse Esq. / West Amesbury / Ms."
Letter with postmark and trace of a seal; month and day are from postmark.
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.
Year is from a date on an enclosed clipping.
Letter is addressed to "Alden B. Morse Esq. / West Amesbury / Ms."
Letter with postmark and trace of a seal; month and day are from postmark.
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.
Year is from a date on an enclosed clipping.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Asking if the "remonstrance against Texas as a slave state" has been sent to Boston; if the remonstrance has not been sent, requesting that he "see to it at once"; giving the name and address to which he should send the complaint.
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