New-York tribune., 1884-12-15
4 TALK WITH WHlTTIER.
HIS RFCOILECrIOYs OF GEORGE D. PRENTICE. HAIR
REr LIyERMORE, CHARLES SUMNER AND
OTUVpS

HIS RECOILECTIOSs OF GEORGE p. PRENTICE. HAIR
RIEr LIvERMoRE, CHARLES SUMNER AND
OTHERS.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO The TRIDUyE.l
BOsTON. Dec. IA writer on The Boston
Herald gives pleasant account Of recent interview
with the Poet Whittier at his winter home In Danvers
Speaking OF his early lite and the publication Of his first
effort 10 court the IN The Necbwyport Free Press
edited by william Lloyd Garrison Whittier said that he
was hoenc corn when the paper containing the poem
was shown him and the happicst prnents
o his fe as manuscript had been sent % the printer
without TIE authors knowledge. The poet sent few
poenis later 70 ne HarUord Reriec then edited by
George D. Prentice mud when that gentleman went 70
Iori.vie Mr. whittier was invited 20 take the editorial
chair tie wns hoeing corn when The oiei came said
he. I would not have been more surprised y had
been oaefcd ,tr crown o. England But he accepted
the trust
i.s ,ss. GAIA. " r4e-tre was y, NJ tl,nes fea--
itssr aggressive ard fa'r rohcn ,nnn nnt 'r''r7 tis
s,,t vs. fiastosi ~ t,rts scre err'.cs. Ah6rV 'heh
eae Nlias" ueiiss s'ta.p iipnre'i. vhb HYs a''p-
e-FA .NpspsF ei ilHepi.s t.pi-v, 50 ,-tsr 't-Y
p-p reetsrn h.t ~ te'e-A az tie"''re APs'-st 'ha
at,.eAs p. ,Nese ue', - lle e'A pI 'Hp fe~sa ".s
c.eA uace % IDg iatAeg5 lauu ie deA swan aitee,
aui eoatRUed to t the soil ipg se1 ega years imrus
y stay iu Hartford heessHe acquainted with Frederick
A L barnard now the presiient OF toiuaha college.
lie was a student at Yale aud came 10 Hartford and
wrote for Tie Repic Was fond Of Eastern history and
was he; and We net often warm friendship
sIrang VI between us which remains TO this day. lie
afterward went to Mississippi believe, aud did not
SEQ him Tor many years. Miriam. q sort oi Eastern
poem. dedicated to him.
"' snow Bound written after two beings had
Iassed away whom I loved dcvOuty-my mother and
my sister. II is in sense memorial OF them, and
AS could not disassnciate the from my home lfe the
poem became narrative OF my early days In Haycrhi
Tho physician alluded 10 my old doctor, Theodore
Weld OF whom also speak IN the prelude to little
poem. The Countess and the young woman was
Miss Harriet Liyermore. the daughter Of Judge Liver
nor, - p'Eaue r %Sdn'eu d S WIN sbn o w. " ih sue f,1
and eccentric hut strong minded and wilfu, and was
the pride took IN correcting my pronunciation
day she determined TO VISIT the educational institutions
thitber she went She spent thirty travelling
the last, and passed time with LAZY Hester Lucy
Mt Lebauon--nesr Beyrout With such u character
Harriet Livermore ought to have been haTpy, hut It
this country. met her after her arrival. and
Spekns 1i her ourney ngs she deserbet her visit 10
milk white horses In her stables whereon TO ride
lem AIN inclined 10 think Miss Ilyermore believed
that one OF the horses ought 10 have been reserved
her rather than for Lady Stauhope and was the
cause o. their Disagreement She afterward visited the
Last and reud OF mine, travelling IN syua found her
but her declining years became sgusted vita
her mode OF living ana returning again to this country
Whittier spoke lovingly OF Lis old-time friends Long
fellow, Emerson, sumner, Hawthorne, Fields and /
Holmes and said:
write little For many years I have been J
bot thered with headaches, ana lately find that ain /
unable u labor for more than fifteen twenty minutes
Al time II would be useless" he said with a SMILE
10 write without head. one cannot get along with
oui brains anu yet there many things have written
especially in prose, which never SHAH repuhl sh.
They refer particularly Ia the antsiavery agta-
ton For long time my position on that question
different from tnat OF Garrison recognized that thc
constitution legalized slave holding and therefore y
efforts were directed against s extension 10 the terri
tories ard ID behalf gradual and Peaceful enancpa-
tion IN the south But when the war burst upon u.s.
was with Lincoln aud Garrison heart aud soul am /
proud the pant played in that ersy but as
harles Sumner endeayOred 10 Oblltefae all record 1I
that great conflict from battle nags, 50 desire 10
bury IN oblivion all the bitter things said
In that strife. -
lie wac a friend OF humanity" Mr.. Whittier ex- |
,laned, pointing Summers picture hanging to the