BIB_ID
378496
Accession number
MA 1304.66
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
ca. 1889.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.2 x 19.4 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.
This may be the proof of "Burning Drift-Wood" that Whittier requests in MA 1304.65, an autograph letter signed to Henry Chandler Bowen dated May 12, 1889. There is also a second printed version of the poem with Whittier's additions described separately as MA 1304.64.
Two columns of text pasted to a single sheet of blue paper.
This may be the proof of "Burning Drift-Wood" that Whittier requests in MA 1304.65, an autograph letter signed to Henry Chandler Bowen dated May 12, 1889. There is also a second printed version of the poem with Whittier's additions described separately as MA 1304.64.
Two columns of text pasted to a single sheet of blue paper.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
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