. Book of the Royal blue . an in-valid to undertake the journey. 1 thank thee nonethe less, however, for asking me. I shall go there inimagination if I cannot otherwise. With best wishes for thy health and happiness, Iam most truly thy Ed. John <!. Whittier. THE TRUTH ABOUT BARBARA FRIETCHIE. You must know that Mr. Whittierwasone of my earliest literary friends, and Ihad known him many years previous to thelate war. I made his acquaintance in 1847here in Washington at the home of , who was then the editor of the Na-tional Era. At that time my first serialstory, Retribution, was run
. Book of the Royal blue . an in-valid to undertake the journey. 1 thank thee nonethe less, however, for asking me. I shall go there inimagination if I cannot otherwise. With best wishes for thy health and happiness, Iam most truly thy Ed. John <!. Whittier. THE TRUTH ABOUT BARBARA FRIETCHIE. You must know that Mr. Whittierwasone of my earliest literary friends, and Ihad known him many years previous to thelate war. I made his acquaintance in 1847here in Washington at the home of , who was then the editor of the Na-tional Era. At that time my first serialstory, Retribution, was running in thatpublication. Previous to our meeting Dr. Bailey Amesbury, Mass., in 1873. We had con-siderable trouble in finding his residenceand were told by one person that he knewwhere a shoemaker by the name of Whittierlived, but did not know just where the poetresided. I later learned that Mr. Whittier wasabsent from Amesbury a good part of histime and had many abodes—all up and downthe Merrimac. He voted in Amesbury,. BARBARA FRIERHIES GRAVE, FREDERICK. handed me a letter written to him by speaking very kindly of my Mr. Whittier a little later an ac-quaintance began which ended only at hisdeath. We also corresponded for manyyears, and when I sent him the story ofBarbara Frietchie I wrote him that Iconsidered it a message from the spiritworld. Barbara died before she had a chanceto read Mr. Whittiers beautiful lines, firstpublished in the Atlantic of October, 1863. In company with Mr. Rainsburg andmy son I visited the poet at his home in where his house was occupied by others,but his room and his study were alwayskept in readiness for his coming, as he wasaccustomed to come and go according tohis whim. His library was in store there. He may have composed BarbaraFrietchie, as he did many of his otherpoems, while lying in bed; he was a lightsleeper and the occupants of the housecould often hear him reciting and changinghis verses. However, we finally
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