Whittier-land

For those who are interested to inquire to whom refer passages in such poems as "Memories," "My Playmate," and "A Sea Dream," I now feel at liberty to give such information as could not properly be given at the time when I undertook the biography of the poet.

If any profit shall be derived from the sale of this book, it will be devoted to the preservation and care of the homes here described, which will ever be open to such visitors as love the memory of Whittier.

S. T. P.

WHITTIER HOME, AMESBURY, MASS., March, 1904.

CONTENTS

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I. Haverhill 1

II. Amesbury 53

III. Whittier's Sense of Humor 105

IV. Whittier's Uncollected Poems 127

Footnotes 154

Index 155

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Frontispiece From an Ambrotype taken about 1857.

MAP OF WHITTIER-LAND xii

WHITTIER'S BIRTHPLACE 2 From a photograph by Alfred A. Ordway.

RIVER PATH, NEAR HAVERHILL 5 From a photograph by Ordway.

HAVERHILL ACADEMY 6 From a photograph by G. W. W. Bartlett.

MAIN STREET, HAVERHILL 8 From a photograph by Ordway.

BIRTHPLACE IN WINTER 9 From a photograph by Ordway.

KENOZA LAKE 10 From a photograph by Ordway.

FERNSIDE BROOK, THE STEPPING-STONES 11 From a photograph by Ordway.

THE BIRTHPLACE, FROM THE ROAD 13 From a photograph by Ordway.

"THE HAUNTED BRIDGE OF COUNTRY BROOK" 15 From a photograph by W. L. Bickum.

GARDEN AT BIRTHPLACE 18 From a photograph by W. L. Bickum.

SNOW-BOUND KITCHEN, EASTERN END 21 From a photograph by Ordway.

SNOW-BOUND KITCHEN, WESTERN END 23 From a photograph by Ordway.

THE WHITTIER ELM 29

JOSHUA COFFIN, WHITTIER'S FIRST SCHOOLMASTER 31

SCENE OF "IN SCHOOL DAYS" 33 From a pencil sketch by W. L. Bickum.

HARRIET LIVERMORE, "HALF-WELCOME GUEST" 41

SCENE ON COUNTRY BROOK 43 From a photograph by Ordway.

THE SYCAMORES 45 From a photograph by Ordway.

OLD GARRISON HOUSE (PEASLEE HOUSE) 47

ROCKS VILLAGE AND BRIDGE 48 From a photograph by Ordway.

RIVER VALLEY, NEAR GRAVE OF COUNTESS 49 From a photograph by Ordway.

DR. ELIAS WELD, THE "WISE OLD PHYSICIAN" OF SNOW-BOUND, AT THE AGE OF NINETY 50

CURSON'S MILL, ARTICHOKE RIVER 57 From a photograph by Ordway.

DEER ISLAND AND CHAIN BRIDGE, HOME OF MRS. SPOFFORD 59

THE WHITTIER HOME, AMESBURY 61 From a photograph by Mrs. P. A. Perry.

JOSEPH STURGE, WHITTIER'S ENGLISH BENEFACTOR 63

"GARDEN ROOM" AMESBURY HOME 65 From a photograph by C. W. Briggs.

MRS. THOMAS, TO WHOM "MEMORIES" WAS ADDRESSED 67

EVELINA BRAY, AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN 68 From a miniature by J. S. Porter.

WHITTIER, AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-TWO. His earliest portrait 69 From a miniature by J. S. Porter.

EVELINA BRAY DOWNEY, AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY 71

ELIZABETH WHITTIER PICKARD 75 From a portrait by Kittell.

SCENE IN GARDEN, AT WHITTIER'S FUNERAL 76

THE FERRY, SALISBURY POINT, MOUTH OF POWOW 77 From a photograph by Miss Woodman.

POWOW RIVER AND PO HILL 79 From a photograph by Miss Woodman.

FRIENDS' MEETING-HOUSE AT AMESBURY 80 From a photograph by Mrs. P. A. Perry.

INTERIOR OF FRIENDS' MEETING-HOUSE 81 From a photograph by G. W. W. Bartlett.

CAPTAIN'S WELL 83 From a photograph by G. W. W. Bartlett.

WHITTIER LOT, UNION CEMETERY, AMESBURY 85 From a photograph by W. R. Merryman.

THE FOUNTAIN ON MUNDY HILL 87

ROCKY HILL CHURCH 88 From a photograph by Miss Woodman.

INTERIOR OF ROCKY HILL CHURCH 89 From a photograph by Miss Woodman.

SCENE OF "THE WRECK OF RIVERMOUTH" 90

SCENE OF "THE TENT ON THE BEACH" 91