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Gleanings from Merrimac Valley / by Miss Rebecca I. Davis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5815
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Rebecca Ingersoll, 1828- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Livermore, Harriet, 1788-1868.
- Livermore, Harriet.
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
- Whittier, John Greenleaf.
- Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.).
- American literature--19th century.
- American literature.
- United States--Merrimack River Valley.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Walker, Laurence (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Huston, A. J. (Almer J.) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Page, Curtis Hidden, 1870-1946 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 15 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Portland, Maine] : Press of B. Thurston & Co.
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, ME. : Hoyt, Fogg & Donham, 1881.
- Contents:
- Part one. Sketch of Miss Harriet Livermore
- Sketch of Whittier's Countess
- The old Garrison house
- Visit to Whittier's birthplace
- Lines read at a Whittier entertainment
- Part two. Miscellaneous poems.
- Notes:
- Manufacture and copyright statements from verso of title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy has pink index card with manuscript bibliographical notes in pencil concerning the second volume of this work affixed to verso of blank leaf following front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has partially illegible dated 20th-century autograph ("Laurence [...]d Walker 1953 Pittsfield") in blue ink on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy has affixed to verso of frontispiece plate folded typescript letter dated 16 March 1940 on letterhead of A.J. Huston New and Old Books addressed to Curtis Hidden Page, Gilmanton, N.H., with manuscript correction to text on recto and "A.J. HUSTON") in manuscript on verso.
- Schimmel Collection copy: frontispiece plate detached.
- OCLC:
- 2696968
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