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The captain's well : printed copy of the poem with autograph additions, ca. 1890.

BIB_ID
378499
Accession number
MA 1304.67
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
ca. 1890.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.5 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.
Two columns of newsprint pasted to one sheet of paper.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
A copy of the poem, probably clipped from the Portland Transcript, Jan. 29, 1890, with two additional lines and several minor corrections in Whittier's hand.