BIB_ID
378163
Accession number
MA 1304.23
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
1859 Feb. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.6 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 a poem of three stanzas labeled "For the Transcript" and signed with Whittier's initials. The poem begins, "You ask a merrier strain of me"; it was published in The Transcript on Feb. 5, 1959 and later revised and published as "Overruled" in 1878.
With a printed version of the poem pasted to the letter.
With a poem of three stanzas labeled "For the Transcript" and signed with Whittier's initials. The poem begins, "You ask a merrier strain of me"; it was published in The Transcript on Feb. 5, 1959 and later revised and published as "Overruled" in 1878.
With a printed version of the poem pasted to the letter.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Sending him a poem for publication; asking him not to put his name to the poem but to use his initials instead.
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