Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : Amesbury, to Lucy Larcom, 1870 Aug. 22.

BIB_ID
378238
Accession number
MA 1304.35
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
1870 Aug. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark.
Enveloped is addressed to "Lucy Larcom / at Fields, Osgood & Co. / Boston."
Letter is written in verse.
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.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Thanking her for her letter; hoping she will come visit when she is settled and the weather is better; discussing whether she should write a review of Miss Phelps' Hedged In for the Atlantic.