BIB_ID
378502
Accession number
MA 1304.70
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
1892 Mar. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.3 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.
Possibly to Henry Chandler Bowen?
Possibly to Henry Chandler Bowen?
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Noting that he received the writer's letter informing him that his poem ("The Wind of March"?) "will be published in the Easter number of the Independent"; telling him that he has "made a change in it to adapt it in some slight degree to the general tenure [i.e. tenor] of the paper"; commenting on "what a splendid array of great names has graced [the recipient's] celebration"; observing that he forgot to enclose a check in his last letter.
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