WHITTIER JOHN GREELEAF Mogg Megone

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WHITTIER, JOHN GREELEAF. Mogg Megone. 16mo, publisher's olive green cloth with an all-over circle and star pattern; custom clamshell box lined in felt. Boston: Light & Stearns, 1836

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scarce first edition. inscribed and signed by thankful southwick, a female abolitionist who lived in Boston, to her sister Mary K. Southwick. The Southwicks and Whittier were part of the same New England social circle. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes in her memoirs: "The home of the Southwicks was always a harbor of rest for the weary, where the anti-slavery hosts were wont to congregate, and where one was always sure to meet someone worth knowing. Here, too, for the first time I met Theodore Parker, John Pierpont, John G. Whittier, Emerson, Alcott, Lowell, Hawthorne, . . . [and] Frederick Douglass . . . " -- Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897. BAL 21697.