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also written, by Whittier [see Historical Mag., Vol. 2, p. 152]. Laid in is a 2 pp. letter from Whittier to Lucy Larcom (with addressed envelope):

Dear fd.

'Amesbury, Apl. 27, 1869.

...

Our house-cleaning is just now going on, and the house is topsyturvy and Rebecca on a sort of wild rampage. If I was in Boston I should stay for the present. I have been little better than sick for ten days. I read the Story of the Song' in the' Transcript' last night. It sets the matter right in the right way."

With an additional slip: "This refers to an article setting right the story of his writing, the Song of the Vermonters.''

[See Reproduction.]

Signed [S. T. PICKARD].

774. DECLARATION OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION, assembled in Philadelphia, Dec. 4, 1833. BROADSIDE. Folio, n. p., n. d. [Philadelphia, 1833]

* FINE COPY. EXTREMELY RARE. With the list of Members of the Convention from the various States, among which are J. G. Whittier from Massachusetts, William Lloyd Garrison from Massachusetts, and others.

PRESENTATION COPY OF A RARE PAMPHLET.

775. THE ABOLITION CAUSE EVENTUALLY TRIUMPHANT: A Sermon delivered before the AntiSlavery Society of Haverhill, Mass., Aug., 1836, by Rev. David Root. 8vo, wrappers, uncut, pp. 24.

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Andover: Gould & Newman, 1836

* PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, with inscription in his autograph: "Caleb Dusten, with the respects of the author." Edited by Whittier; and with a 34-line note by him on pp. 17-18. VERY SCARCE. Lacking in the Arnold, Foote, and other well-known collections.

Annual

776. RIGHT AND WRONG IN BOSTON. Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. 12mo, original wrappers, uncut, pp. 90 (small piece of front wrapper torn away). Boston: Published for the Society, 1836

Contains 2 Poems by Whittier: "To the Memory of Charles B. Storrs" and "Clerical Oppressors," the latter of which is anonymous. Rare in the original wrappers.

777. SONGS OF THE FREE, and Hymns of Christian Freedom. 12mo, original cloth. Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1836 *THE ARNOLD COPY, with book-label. The Poems: " Voice of New England," "The Hunting of Men," and "Our Countrymen in Chains," are by Whittier.

778. MOGG MEGONE; a Poem. 32mo, original cloth, lettered on the side. Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836

* FINE COPY. VERY RARE. Mogg Megone" has never been published in any collected edition of the author's works. It was first isued serially in "The New England Magazine" for 1835, and was the first bound volume, exclusively of verse issued by Whittier. He tried persistently, but unsuccessfully, to suppress it. In a letter written to Lucy Hooper in 1837 the author says in part. ". . . I send thee a copy of Mogg Megone.' . . . It is not, I fear, calculated to do good. But a small edition, however, was printed, and it is some satisfaction ts believe that it cannot do much evil."

ENCLOSED IN A FULL CRUSHED LEVANT GREEN MOROCCO SOLANDER CASE, RICHLY GILT BACK, BY BRADSTREET.

779. THE BOSTON BOOK: being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature. Edited by B. B. Thatcher [with Poems by Whittier, Holmes, and others]. Vignette title. 12mo, original cloth (ink-spot on engraved title).

Boston: Light and Stearns, 1837

780. POEMS. Written during the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States between the Years 1830 and 1838. Frontispiece and vignettes. 12mo, original figured cloth, lettered on the side, pp. 96. Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837 * THE ARNOLD COPY, with book-label. THE EARLIEST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION WITH 96 PAGES. EXTREMELY RARE. Enclosed in full green crushed levant morocco solander case, richly tooled, by Bradstreet. A VERY FINE COPY.

781. POEMS. Written during the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States between the Years 1830 and 1838. Frontispiece and vignettes. 12mo, original figured /cloth, lettered on side, pp. 103. Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837

*FINE COPY. Contains 103 pages. Whittier had gone on a visit to New York. ". . . a place which . . . I must consider unfit for Christian, or heathen even, to dwell in" (extract from a letter written by Whittier in 1837), when, without Whittier's authority or permission, Isaac Knapp published the above volume of Poems, which is the first published edition of his collected Poems.

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782. RIGHT AND WRONG IN BOSTON. Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. 16mo, original cloth. Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837

*Contains the Poem "Lines written on reading the famous Pastoral Letter of the Massachusetts General Association," by Whittier.

783. NARRATIVE OF JAMES WILLIAMS. An American Slave, who was for several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama. Portrait of Williams engraved by Patrick Reason [a negro]. 24mo, original figured cloth (corners of pages stained; name on back).

784.

New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838 *RARE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, published anonymously and written when Whittier was visiting his friend, J. W. Hill, of New York. The "gentleman" referred to on p. 98 is in all probability Mr. Hill.

In "Proceedings of the American Anti-Slavery Society" (New York, 1864) there is a catalogue of the Anti-Slavery Publications in America from 1750 to 1863, in which this book is stated to have been 'drawn up by Whittier,' and in a letter written by Whittier he acknowledges his connection with the book.”—Arnold Catalogue.

Enclosed in a full green crushed levant morocco solander case, richly tooled by Bradstreet.

The same. THE RARE SECOND ISSUE having printer's name on the reverse of title, etc. Bound in original boards, cloth back, with printed label.

New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838

* Enclosed in a full green crushed levant morocco solander case, richly tooled, by Bradstreet.

COPIES IN BOARDS ARE REISSUES.

Mr. Chamberlain stated THAT ALL

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785. A FINE COPY OF THE THIRD ISSUE IN THE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS. The title on the front

wrapper reads "Authentic Narrative," etc. The work was entirely re-set and stereotyped at the foundry of Geo. A. and J. Curtis. The portrait was also re-engraved and lithographed by Moore of Boston. 12mo, wrappers. New York and Boston: Amer. Anti-Slavery Society and Isaac Knapp, 1838.

* VERY RARE IN THIS STATE. This issue embodies all the corrections in the second New York edition.