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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Whittier-land, by Samuel T. Pickard This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex Author: Samuel T. Pickard Release Date: August 22, 2009 [EBook #29754] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHITTIER-LAND *** Produced by K. Nordquist, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) 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
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