BIB_ID
378279
Accession number
MA 1304.40
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
ca. 1869 Jan. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.3 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.
Published as "Howard at Atlanta."
The sheet also includes an autograph note signed with initials from Whittier to [James] Fields, presenting the poem to him and ordering a subscription of "Ev[er]y Saturday to be sent to Mary E. Carter, Amesbury, from Jan. 1, 1869." The possible date of the manuscript is based on this reference to Jan. 1, 1869.
Whittier's poem is based on a reported exchange between the young Richard Robert Wright and General Oliver Otis Howard in 1868.
Published as "Howard at Atlanta."
The sheet also includes an autograph note signed with initials from Whittier to [James] Fields, presenting the poem to him and ordering a subscription of "Ev[er]y Saturday to be sent to Mary E. Carter, Amesbury, from Jan. 1, 1869." The possible date of the manuscript is based on this reference to Jan. 1, 1869.
Whittier's poem is based on a reported exchange between the young Richard Robert Wright and General Oliver Otis Howard in 1868.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
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