Sumner / [J.G. Whittier].

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.

Contributor:

• Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874--Poetry.
• Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874.

Genre:

• Poetry.

Physical Description:

8 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1874?]

Notes:

• Caption title.
• Signed: J.G. Whittier.
• Written for the commemorative services for Charles Sumner held in the Music Hall, Boston, on June 9, 1874. The leaflet printings are presumably the earliest. The text varies considerably from printing to printing. Text A is a single leaf printed on one side only, in 2 columns with 44 stanzas; text B is a single sheet in a double French fold, has a caption-title and 47 stanzas but there are two issues noted: 1, p. 6, stanza 4, line 2 "Three-banked, like Latium's tall trireme," and 2, on p. 6, stanza 4 is cancelled by means of a printed slip and line 2 reads "The pine-grove whispered of his theme"; text C has caption title with text of 47 stanzas with the corrected state of stanza 4 on p. 6.--Cf. BAL.

Local Notes:

• Culture Class Collection copy is text C.
• Culture Class Collection copy has letter written in ms. by Charles Sumner dated 14 March '61, Senate Chamber, laid in.

Cited in:

BAL, 21920

OCLC:

702333087