The burial of Barber : autograph manuscript of the poem signed with initials, ca. 1856.

Record ID: 
378145
Accession number: 
MA 1304.19
Author: 
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Date: 
ca. 1856.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description: 
1 item (3 p.) ; 24.8 cm
Notes: 

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 revisions.
Written as a response to the shooting of the abolitionist Thomas W. Barber near Lawrence, Kansas, on Dec. 6, 1855.

Provenance: 
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.