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John Greenleaf Whittier letters and documents
- Title
- John Greenleaf Whittier letters and documents, 1850-1890.
- Author
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
- Supplementary Content
- Collection guide
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 4677 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- .1 linear foot (1 folder).
- Summary
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1882) was an American poet, journalist and abolitionist. The collection consists of autograph letters written to various parties regarding literary, political and personal matters; autograph verses signed; and autograph signatures. Letter recipients include his editor James T. Fields, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Henry Wilson, newspaper editor and U.S. senator from Massachusetts. Whittier's letter of 1853 September 23 to a political committee in New York City expresses his support of Free Soil politics and his disgust over the Fugitive Slave Law. The collection includes two separate autograph poems, The Christmas Carmen, enclosed in a letter to the editor of The Independent, 1872, and The Vanishers, undated. A letter to James T. Fields contains the emended opening lines of The Tent on the Beach, dated 1867.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poems.
- Access (note)
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Source (note)
- Donated by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899, as part of the Ford Collection; by Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1952; various other donations, 1952-1985.
- Call Number
- MssCol 4677
- OCLC
- 988031784
- Author
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, creator.
- Title
- John Greenleaf Whittier letters and documents, 1850-1890.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Restricted Access
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Source
- Donated by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899, as part of the Ford Collection; by Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1952; various other donations, 1952-1985.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Abolitionists.Journalists.Poets.
- Added Author
- Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881, Correspondent.Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 1830-1886, Correspondent.Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, Correspondent.Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875, Correspondent.Ford Collection.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 4677