BIB_ID
378477
Accession number
MA 1304.59
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
1886 Nov. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
MA 1304.60, an autograph manuscript of "Given and Taken," was sent to Bowen with this letter.
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.
The letter appears to be dated 1886, but Whittier may have meant 1884 since the enclosed poem was published in the Independent in Dec. 1884.
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.
The letter appears to be dated 1886, but Whittier may have meant 1884 since the enclosed poem was published in the Independent in Dec. 1884.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Telling him that "illness has prevented [him] from an earlier answer to" Bowen's letter; sending him a poem ("Given and Taken") for publication in The Independent.
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