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Title: Whittier-land
A Handbook of North Essex

Author: Samuel T. Pickard

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Language: English

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WHITTIER-LAND

_SAMUEL T. PICKARD_

[Illustration]

By Samuel T. Pickard

WHITTIER-LAND. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.00 _net_. Postage 9 cents.

LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. With Portraits and other
Illustrations. 2 vols. crown 8vo, gilt top, $4.00.

_One-Volume Edition_. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $2.50.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

WHITTIER-LAND

[Illustration: JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

From an ambrotype taken about 1857]

WHITTIER-LAND

A Handbook of North Essex

CONTAINING MANY ANECDOTES OF AND POEMS
BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
NEVER BEFORE COLLECTED

BY

SAMUEL T. PICKARD

AUTHOR OF "LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER"

_ILLUSTRATED WITH MAP AND ENGRAVINGS_

[Illustration: The Riverside Press]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT 1904 BY SAMUEL T. PICKARD

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published April 1904_

EIGHTH IMPRESSION

PREFACE

This volume is designed to meet a call from tourists who are visiting
the Whittier shrines at Haverhill and Amesbury in numbers that are
increasing year by year. Besides describing the ancestral homestead and
its surroundings, and the home at Amesbury, an attempt is made to
answer such questions as naturally arise in regard to the localities
mentioned by Whittier in his ballads of the region. Many anecdotes of
the poet and several poems by him are now first published. It is with
some hesitancy that I have ventured to add a chapter upon a phase of
his character that has never been adequately presented: I refer to his
keen sense of humor. It wi