BIB_ID
378503
Accession number
MA 1304.71
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
ca. 1892.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.8 cm
Notes
A printed proof with the last eleven lines crossed out and an autograph manuscript of twelve lines pasted over them.
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.
With the following note below the poem: "The substance of these lines hastily pencilled several years ago I find among such of my unprinted scraps as have escaped the waste-basket and the fire. In transcribing it I have made some changes, additions, and omissions."
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.
With the following note below the poem: "The substance of these lines hastily pencilled several years ago I find among such of my unprinted scraps as have escaped the waste-basket and the fire. In transcribing it I have made some changes, additions, and omissions."
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
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