John Greenleaf Whittier collection

The collection contains John Greenleaf Whittier manuscript poems, letters and printed material, including portraits. The poems include: "An Acrostic for Lois Jones," "The Stars," "What the Birds Said," "Divine Compassion," "The Quaker Meeting," "The Last Eve of Summer," "Between the Gates," and "Esther Gyle's Ride," among others. The correspondence includes letters by Whittier to James T. Fields and Lucy Larcom. Also included are three folders of manuscripts by Samuel Thomas Pickard from his writings on Whittier: "Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier" and "Whittier's Sense of Humor."