RARE “American Essayist\" Edwin Percy Whipple Hand Written Letter for Sale

RARE “American Essayist\" Edwin Percy Whipple Hand Written Letter For Sale

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RARE “American Essayist\" Edwin Percy Whipple Hand Written Letter:
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Up for sale "American Essayist" Edwin Percy Whipple Hand Written Letter Dated 1884.

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Edwin

Percy Whipple (March 8, 1819 –

June 16, 1886) was an American essayist and critic. He was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1819. For a time, he was the main

literary critic for Philadelphia-based Graham's Magazine. Later,

in 1848, he became the Boston correspondent to The Literary World under Evert Augustus Duyckinck and George Long Duyckinck. Historian Perry Miller called Whipple "Boston's most popular

critic". Whipple

was also a public lecturer. In 1850, he defended the intelligence of George Washington and compared him to other brilliant men

of his time in a speech which later became known as "The Genius of

Washington". Whipple was a close friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne. After

Hawthorne's death in 1864, Whipple served as a pallbearer for his funeral

alongside Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,

and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Whipple's close relationship with other Boston-area authors occasionally tinted

his reviews. Edward Emerson later noted, "No other member of the Saturday

Club has ever been more loyally felicitous in characterizing

the literary work of his associates." Whipple died in 1886 and was

interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.