[Rarebooks] FS: Whittier Book, SIGNED Handwritten Letter, and SIGNED Handwritten Quotation

[Charles Agvent]

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. THE TENT ON THE BEACH And Other Poems with an 
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) and an AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS). 
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. First Edition. Publisher's brick cloth. 
BAL 21866: Binding B; mostly B points in text. Likely the Second 
Printing, as usual. Pasted to the front endpaper is an envelope 
containing a three-page handwritten letter on three sides of a 10" x 8" 
sheet of paper folded into fours SIGNED by Whittier with his initials 
and dated 1867, regarding the "The Palatine," a poem which appears on 
page 90 of the book, giving background to the legend of "The Palatine 
Light," an apparition reported near Block Island said to be the ghost 
ship of a lost 18th-century vessel named the Palatine. The folklore 
account is based on the historical wreck of the Princess Augusta in 
1738, which became known as the Palatine in 19th-century accounts. 
Whittier immortalized the legend in this, one of his best-known poems, 
based on a tale the poet heard in 1865 from Newport resident Joseph P. 
Hazard, whose family were key informants for collectors of 19th-century 
New England folklore. Also tipped in opposite the page where it appears 
is a MANUSCRIPT stanza from Whittier's poem "The Eternal Goodness," 
SIGNED in full: "I know not where His islands lift/Their fronded palms 
in air;/I only know I cannot drift/Beyond His love and care." The 
Stephen H. Wakeman copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown and 
auction description pasted to the bottom of the front pastedown. Letter 
has creases from mailing, the ink a bit faded; stain over a few letters 
of the quote and the facing page; light wear to spine tips. At least 
Very Good with interesting additions and a superb provenance. 
(#021026)        $1,500

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