BIB_ID
378497
Accession number
MA 1304.65
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
1889 May 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20 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.
Recipient of the letter has been added in pencil in an unknown hand.
This letter likely enclosed MA 1304.64, a printed copy of Whittier's "Burning Drift-Wood" with his autograph additions. See also a second printed copy of the poem with Whittier's additions, described separately as MA 1304.66.
Recipient of the letter has been added in pencil in an unknown hand.
This letter likely enclosed MA 1304.64, a printed copy of Whittier's "Burning Drift-Wood" with his autograph additions. See also a second printed copy of the poem with Whittier's additions, described separately as MA 1304.66.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Sending him "a poem of nearly 100 lines" and hoping it "will be found not unacceptable to the occasion"; asking for a proof "if it is printed before the meeting."
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