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The wife of Manoah to her husband : autograph manuscript of the poem signed : Amesbury, to John Keese, 1845 June 11.

BIB_ID
378101
Accession number
MA 1304.10
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
1845 June 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "John Keese, Esq. / 254 Pearl Street / New York."
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.
Poem includes revisions.
The first three pages contain the manuscript of the poem. Whittier writes a short note to John Keese on p. [3] and includes Keese's address on p. [4].
With postmark; day is from postmark.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Telling him that he is sending the poem "at friend [John] Pierpont's request"; asking him to let him see a proof of it; promising to return the proof "by next mail"; asking him to return the poem if it is not accepted.