Commonplace Book of John Winslow Whitman, Husband of Poet Sarah Helen Whitman (who was later engaged to Edgar Allan Poe)

by WHITMAN, John Winslow, Caroline Whitman; (Sarah Helen Whitman)

$12,000 · Offered by Between the Covers

(Providence, Rhode Island; Massachusetts: 1817-1823; 1833). Hardcover. Commonplace Book. Octavo (5¼” x 8”). Contains approximately 120 manuscript pages in ink on the rectos and versos, consisting of quoted extracts and occasional personal reflections written by John Winslow Whitman and his sister Caroline, and a final page possibly in the hand..... More

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