. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. g to the real valueof your productions, rather than according to their . Inclosed is a check for one hundred dollars. authorizes me to draw on him for one thousanddollars at any time when you and I should think it couldbe judiciously invested in real estate for your family. Ican procure the money in a week by drawing on you have made up your mind as to the investment,please let me know. At this time the poet was feeling the pinch of real pov-erty and was living in a little one-story cottage that gavehim no room for a study
. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. g to the real valueof your productions, rather than according to their . Inclosed is a check for one hundred dollars. authorizes me to draw on him for one thousanddollars at any time when you and I should think it couldbe judiciously invested in real estate for your family. Ican procure the money in a week by drawing on you have made up your mind as to the investment,please let me know. At this time the poet was feeling the pinch of real pov-erty and was living in a little one-story cottage that gavehim no room for a study, and no suitable chamber for aguest. It was at this time that he received the letter whichcontained not only a check for overdue salary, but a pro- AMESBURY 63 mise of a gift of one thousand dollars from his generousEnglish friend, Joseph Sturge. The result of this benefi-cence was the building of the garden room, to whichthousands of visitors come from all parts of this and othercountries, because in it were written Snow-Bound, • The. JOSEPH STURGE, THE ENGLISH PHILANTHROPIST The very gentlest of all human naturesHe joined to courage strong. In Remembrance of Joseph Sturge Eternal Goodness, and most of the poems of VVhittiersmiddle life and old age. Mr. Sturge had sent Whittier sixyears earlier a draft for one thousand dollars, intendingit should be used by him in traveling for his Whittier had given most of this toward the supportof an anti-slavery paper in New York. Two years laterthe same generous friend offered to pay all his expenses 64 WHITTIKR-LAXD if 1ie would conic to England as his ^uest, an offer he wasobliged to decline. A portrait of Sturge is appropriatelyplaced in this room. Tappans letter was written April 21,1847, and the addition to the cottage was built in thesummer of that year. The whole expense of the improve-ment was no doubt covered by Sturges gift. Other inter-esting letters of the same period were included in thepackage in the wall. In a
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