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- GLC#
- GLC05508.262.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 28 June 1879
- Author/Creator
- Whittier, John G., 1807-1892
- Title
- to Maria Child
- Place Written
- Danvers, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 18.7 cm, Width: 12.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Discusses the Yearly Quaker Meeting he just returned from, in addition to speakers at Garrison's funeral and William Lloyd Garrison's views on the after life. Whittier is "shocked by the barbarism & superstition of our popular faith." He says another George Fox is needed to call men to a life of the spirit. He thanks Child for the translation of George Sand.
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