Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . of eth-nological specimens from Hawaii and the South Sea Islands in Amer-ica. Salem Athenaetmi. 339 Essex Street. Contains about 30,000volumes; a private circulating library owned by the stock holders,and started about one hundred years ago. BEVERLY Beyond Salem and across the Beverly bridge lies Beverly. Here,at the corner of Main and Wallace streets, near the present LarcomTheatre, lived the poet, Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), who wrote, be-sides verses, A New England Girlhood. The manuscript of
Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . of eth-nological specimens from Hawaii and the South Sea Islands in Amer-ica. Salem Athenaetmi. 339 Essex Street. Contains about 30,000volumes; a private circulating library owned by the stock holders,and started about one hundred years ago. BEVERLY Beyond Salem and across the Beverly bridge lies Beverly. Here,at the corner of Main and Wallace streets, near the present LarcomTheatre, lived the poet, Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), who wrote, be-sides verses, A New England Girlhood. The manuscript of herHannah Binding Shoes is in the possession of the Beverly His-torical Society (Burley Mansion on fcabot Street). Lucy Larcomwas a valued friend and literary associate of Whittier. Near the 54 BEVERLY Common stands the ancestral home and summer residence of GeorgeEdward Woodberry (1855- ), formerly Professor of Literature inColumbia University, poet, essayist, editor, and critic. (Life ofEdgar Allan Poe; Nathaniel Hawthorne; The North ShoreWatch; The Heart of Man; etc.) Beverly was also the home. HOME OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIERAMESBURV of Frederick Albion Ober (1849-1913), naturalist, and author ofworks of travel and stories for young people. ( Knockabout Club books; Porto Rico; History of the West Indies; etc.) Beverly was the birthplace of Whittiers friend, Robert Rantoul(1805-1852), who was active in the introduction of the l3^ceum sys-tem, and a powerful opponent of the Fugitive-Slave Law. ( Me-moirs, Speeches, and Writings.) Beyond Beverly and near the Beverly Farms railroad station isthe attractive but modest house where Oliver Wendell Holmes spenthis summers; while beyond the limits set to this pilgrimage, and yetat no great distance from Boston or Salem, are three important liter-ary shrines — homes of John Greenleaf Whittier (1S07-1892), onein Amesbury, one in Danvers, and his birthplace in East Haverhill,so graphically described in Snow-Bound. The last of these isn
Size: 1875px × 1332px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookidliteraryland, bookyear1922
