Whittier and Nebraska Charles Arthur Hawley Footnotes 1. J. S. Morton, Illustrated History of Nebraska, Lincoln 1905, p. 179. 2. See Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, in many editions (usually called the Cambridge Edition), p. 317. Hereafter references for Whittier's poems will be to this edition, published 1895, under the name "Cambridge edn." 3. In the issues of Sept. 7 and Sept. 9, 1892, respectively. 4. Cambridge edn. p. 374. 5. Ibid., p. 144. 6. Ibid., p. 143. 7. Early History of Omaha, Omaha, 1876, p. 38. 8. C. E. Persinger, History of Merrick County (Nebraska) from the Beginning to 1895. Privately printed ; n. d. Page 2. 9. Ibid., p. 82. 10. Ibid., p. 107. 11. For this and the following information relative to the Friends' settlement and the establishment of their college at Central City, the present writer is indebted to the faculty of Nebraska Central College, who have placed their records and memories at his disposal. 12. Herbert Mott: Manuscript in possession of President Ora W. Carrell, of Nebraska Central College. 13. The American Friend, June 1898. 14. The Nebraska Friend, November 1902. 15. From "Thy Will be Done" ; see Cambridge edn. p. 333. 16. From "My Namesake" ; see Cambridge edn. p. 393. 17. For details of the Friends' attitude toward the liquor problem see article by the present writer, "The Growth of Whittier's Reputation in Iowa" in Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association, vol. 28 (1929), p. 78 f. 18. Ibid., p. 80. 19. Cambridge edn. p. 351. 20. The present writer expresses most gratefully his thanks to Professor Milo Crosby, Librarian at Nebraska Central College, for assistance in going through the complete file of The Nebraska Friend. 21. Life and Labors of Rev. Reuben Gaylord. By his Wife. Omaha, 1889. Page 167. 22. From "On Receiving an Eagle's Quill from Lake Superior" ; see Cambridge edn. p. 144. 23. Life and Labors of . . . Gaylord, p. 173. 24. Ibid., p. 191. 25. Cambridge edn. p. 323. 26. Life and Letters of . . . Gaylord, p. 397. 27. J. S. Morton, History of Nebraska, vol. ii, p. 719. 28. Cambridge edn. p. 430. 29. Ibid., p. 226. 30. Cambridge edn. p. 261. 31. In his Bibliography of John Greenleaf Whittier, Cambridge 1937, p. 605. 32. Cambridge edn. p. 230. 33. From "Raphael" ; see Cambridge edn. p. 387. 34. See the present writer's discussion of this Anthology in Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association, vol. 28 (1939), p. 91 ff. 35. See "The Chapel of the Hermits," Cambridge edn. p. 39. 36. Cambridge edn. p. 425. 37. From "Miriam" ; see Cambridge edn. p. 93. 38. From "The Huskers" ; see Cambridge edn. p. 363. 39. Cf. article by the present writer, "John Greenleaf Whittier and his Middle Western Correspondents," in Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association, vol. 28 (1939), p. 19 ff, 29. 40. Cambridge edn. p. 382. 41. Cambridge edn. p. 214. 42. See the present writer's article "Correspondence between John Greenleaf Whittier and Iowa" in the Iowa Journal of History and Politics, April 1937, for a discussion of Whittier's attitude toward equal suffrage as seen in Iowa. 43. See the present writer's account of Mrs. Wilson's anthology, and the work of her husband in Nebraska, in Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association, vol. 28 (1939), p. 91 ff. 44. From "The Bridal of Pennacook," part v ; see Cambridge edn. p. 23 (this passage on p. 29, in slightly different form). Copyright © 1941 Friends Historical Association