BIB_ID
378112
Accession number
MA 1304.13
Creator
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Display Date
ca. 1847.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.8 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.
The poem is loosely based on a passage in Richardson's Journal in Africa from 1846 Mar. 10.
The poem is loosely based on a passage in Richardson's Journal in Africa from 1846 Mar. 10.
Provenance
Samuel T. Pickard; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
The recto includes two stanzas excerpted from Whittier's "Song of Slaves in the Desert"; the verso includes an excerpt from a prose work by Whittier, "My Summer with Dr. Singletary."
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