“Neighbor Jackwood” John Townsend Trowbridge Hand Written Envelope Mounted For Sale

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“Neighbor Jackwood” John Townsend Trowbridge Hand Written Envelope Mounted:
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Up for sale a RARE! “Neighbor Jackwood” John Townsend Trowbridge Hand Written Envelope Dated 1907 Mounted to a 5.75X9 Card. Trowbridge signatures rarely come to sale as most of his original works and documents are housed at the Houghton Library at Harvard University.

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John

Townsend Trowbridge (September

18, 1827 – February 12, 1916) was an American author. Trowbridge was born

in Ogden, New York, to

Windsor Stone Trowbridge and Rebecca Willey. His birthplace was a log cabin his

father constructed through the use of wooden pegs. Trowbridge received an unremarkable education,

but had an early interest in literature. He recalled in his autobiography that

he wrote his first poem at age 13. His first published work was published

anonymously in the Rochester Republican when he was 16. He

started working as a teacher and on a farm for one year in Illinois. In 1847, at age 19, he moved to New York City to become an author and, with the

assistance of Mordecai Manuel Noah,

began publishing in periodicals while also working at a pencil case engraving

factory. He moved to Boston in August 1848, and in 1850,

during the absence of Benjamin Perley Poore in

Washington, D.C., edited Poore's paper, the Sentinel, but his

editorial on the fugitive-slave law nearly

destroyed the paper's popularity. He married Cornelia Warren (May 1, 1834 –

March 23, 1864) in 1860. After her death, he remarried to Sarah Adelaide Newton

in 1873. In June 1867 Trowbridge bought a house at 152 Pleasant Street,

Arlington, Massachusetts where he lived until his death on February 12, 1916. Trowbridge also spent much time in Kennebunkport, Maine,

where he built Spouting Rock Cottage, near to Spouting Rock and Blowing

Cave, both of which he named. His novels include Neighbor Jackwood (1857),

an antislavery novel; The Old Three Wives (1867); Coupon

Bonds, and Other Stories (1873); and Farnell's Folly.

Another is Evening At The Farm. Trowbridge wrote numerous works

under the pseudonym of Paul Creyton, including The Midshipman's Revenge (1849), Kate

the Accomplice, or, The Preacher and the Burglar (1849), The

Deserted Family, or, Wanderings of an or, An Old Clergyman's Vacation (1853), Burr

Cliff: its Sunshine and its Clouds (1853); Martin Merrivale:

His X Mark (1854), Iron Among his very many juvenile tales are The

Drummer Boy, The Prize Cup, The Lottery Ticket, The

Tide-Mill Stories, The Toby Trafford Series, The Little

Master, and the Jack Hazard series. His published volumes

of verse include: The Vagabonds, and Other Poems; The

Emigrant's Story, and Other Poems; A Home Idyl, and Other Poems; The

Lost Earl; and The Book of Gold, and Other Poems. The

Vagabonds, At Sea, and Midsummer are among his

best-known poems. His long poem Guy Vernon: A Novelette in Verse was

first published anonymously in the compilation A Masque of Poets (1878). In Darius Green and

his Flying Machine, Trowbridge penned the following prophetic verse:

"Darius was clearly of the opinion / That the air is also man's dominion /

And that with paddle or fin or pinion, / We soon or late shall navigate / The

azure as now we sail the sea. He is today perhaps best remembered for his

study The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities (1867, republished two years later with

additions by another author as A Picture of the Desolated States and

the Work of Reconstruction, 1865-1868). Trowbridge toured much of the

defeated Confederacy during the summer of 1865 and the following winter. He

observed carefully, and talked with a wide variety of people of both sexes,

including freedmen, die-hard Rebels, Unionists, farmers, businessmen, refugees,

and Northern entrepreneurs. In his book, he lets these people speak in their

own voices, often adding his own comments. His book can profitably be read with

those of John Richard Dennett (The South As It Is: 1865-1866) and Whitelaw Reid (After the War: A Tour of the Southern

States, 1865-1866). All three accounts are written from the perspective of

a loyal and fair Northerner genuinely concerned about conditions in the South

and the evolving policies of the United States towards that section. From 1865

to 1873 Trowbridge was co-editor with Lucy Larcom of Our Young Folks. Since his death he has been well known as

a friend of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. Trowbridge's papers are located at Houghton Library at Harvard University.

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“Neighbor Jackwood” John Townsend Trowbridge Hand Written Envelope Mounted

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