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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.
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