BIB_ID
378162
Accession number
MA 1304.22
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
[1858 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20 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.
Written on the verso of a letter (2 p.) from Theodore Tilton to John Greenleaf Whittier dated 1858 Nov. 28. In the letter, written on letterhead stationery of the "Office of The Independent," Tilton offers Whittier $50 per poem to publish his work in The Independent.
Written on the verso of a letter (2 p.) from Theodore Tilton to John Greenleaf Whittier dated 1858 Nov. 28. In the letter, written on letterhead stationery of the "Office of The Independent," Tilton offers Whittier $50 per poem to publish his work in The Independent.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
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