BIB_ID
378093
Accession number
MA 1304.9
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
[1845].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope is addressed to "Mr. A.B. Morse / West Amesbury / Mass." and has a 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 based on his mention of the annexation of Texas (see MA 1304.8, a letter from Whittier to Morse dated 1845 Dec. 2 about the same topic).
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 based on his mention of the annexation of Texas (see MA 1304.8, a letter from Whittier to Morse dated 1845 Dec. 2 about the same topic).
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Sending "a copy of our little paper against Slavery in Texas"; hoping the "remonstrance is already in circulation" in Morse's section; telling him that "the petition should be sent down here by the last of the week."
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