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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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Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 4677Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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Additional Authors
  • Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881
  • Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 1830-1886
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
  • Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875
  • Ford Collection.
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.
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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
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