John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 (American poet & abolitionist)
Person
biographical statement
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets. Whittier was strongly influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Highly regarded in his lifetime and for a period thereafter, he is now remembered for his poem Snow-Bound, and the words of the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, from his poem "The Brewing of Soma", sung to music by Hubert Parry.
Citation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier (MWB, October 17, 2012)Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Lucy Larcom Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-005
Abstract
The Lucy Larcom Papers include 2 diaries, Nov. 1859-Aug. 1862; commonplace books, 1859-1867; herbaria; class books and grade book, 1859-1861; rhetoric notes, 1855 and 1857; correspondence with mother, John Greenleaf Whittier and his sister, Mrs. A.D.T.Whitney, and others, 1840s-1890s; paintings; clothing; manuscript poems and the Semi-centennial Sketch of Wheaton Seminary; Kansas Prize Song printed on handkerchief (1855); photographs Larcom owned; articles, obituaries, memorials;...
Dates:
1859-1970s
Mary J. Bailey Lincoln (Mary Johnson Bailey) Biographical Information
Collection
Identifier: SMC-016
Abstract
Mary J. Lincoln's biographical information includes various biographies, family newsletters, and information about her relatives Jane Eliza Woodbury and Mary E. Bailey.
Dates:
1838-1996; 1982 - 1996
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1870, 1879, n.d.
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Lucy Larcom Papers include 2 diaries, Nov. 1859-Aug. 1862, originally begun as an "extended letter" to Esther Humiston. Humiston was a life long confidante until her death in 1861. Many of the entries were marked for inclusion in Daniel Dulany Addison's biography "Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters and Diary" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894.) Within the collection are Larcom's commonplace books from 1859-1867 in which she collected clippings and manuscript excerpts of...
Dates:
1870, 1879, n.d.
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- Collection 2
- Archival Object 1
- Subject
- Family history. 2
- Wheaton Female Seminary (Norton, Mass.) 2
- Abolitionists 1
- Authors 1
- Biography 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) -- 19th century. 1
- Commonplace books 1
- Cooking, American 1
- Copybooks 1
- Correspondence 1
- Devotional literature, American -- Women authors -- 19th century. 1
- Diaries. 1
- Family records 1
- Grading and marking (Students) 1
- Herbaria -- New England -- 19th century. 1
- Larcom, Benjamin, -- 1776-1832 -- Logbooks. 1
- Larcom, Lucy, -- 1824-1893 -- Collectibles. 1
- Larcom, Lucy, -- 1824-1893 -- Correspondence. 1
- Larcom, Lucy, -- 1824-1893 -- Diaries. 1
- Larcom, Lucy, -- 1824-1893 -- Manuscripts. 1
- Larcom, Lucy, -- 1824-1893 -- Photographs. 1
- Larcom, Lucy, -- 1824-1893 -- Poetry. 1
- Larcom, Lucy, -- 1824-1893 -- Prose. 1
- Monticello Female Seminary -- Hitory -- 19th century. 1
- Nature in literature -- 19th century. 1
- New England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. 1
- New England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 1
- Pickard, Samuel T. -- (Samuel Thomas), -- 1828-1915 -- Correspondence. 1
- Poetry. 1
- Travel. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil war, 1861-1865 -- New England -- Sources. 1
- Watercolor painting -- United States -- 19th century. 1
- Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.) 1
- Whittier, Elizabeth, -- 1815-1864 -- Correspondence. 1
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, -- 1807-1892 -- Correspondence. 1
- Women teachers -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography. 1
- Women textile workers -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Women's education 1 + ∧ less
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