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John Greenleaf Whittier letters and documents

Title
  1. John Greenleaf Whittier letters and documents, 1850-1890.
Supplementary content
  1. Collection guide
Author
  1. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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Additional authors
  1. Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881
  2. Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 1830-1886
  3. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
  4. Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875
  5. Ford Collection.
Description
  1. .1 linear foot (1 folder).
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. Abolitionists
  2. Journalists
  3. Poets, American > 19th century
  4. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 > Correspondence
  5. Poems
  6. Free Soil Party (U.S.)
  7. United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865
  8. United States Fugitive slave law (1850)
  9. American poetry > 19th century
  10. Poets
Genre/Form
  1. Poems.
Call number
  1. MssCol 4677
Access (note)
  1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
Source (note)
  1. Donated by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899, as part of the Ford Collection; by Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1952; various other donations, 1952-1985.
Author
  1. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, creator.
Title
  1. John Greenleaf Whittier letters and documents, 1850-1890.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. sheet
Restricted access
  1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
Source
  1. Donated by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899, as part of the Ford Collection; by Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1952; various other donations, 1952-1985.
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  1. Collection guide
Occupation
  1. Abolitionists.
  2. Journalists.
  3. Poets.
Added author
  1. Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881, Correspondent.
  2. Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 1830-1886, Correspondent.
  3. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, Correspondent.
  4. Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875, Correspondent.
  5. Ford Collection.
Research call number
  1. MssCol 4677
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