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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC01543.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865-1929 |
| Title | William Cullen Bryant to James Thomas Fields concerning a poem he had written |
| Date | 5 June 1866 |
| Author | Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) |
| Recipient | Fields, James Thomas |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Bryant writes to Fields, editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Transmits a poem, "The Death of Slavery" (GLC 1543.02). Remarks that the poem was "meditated a year since but written out within the last few days. I had a good deal of trouble with some of the stanzas, or you would have had it earlier. You will publish it if at all, when you please." Relates that his wife is ill. In a post script, notes, "What shall I call the poem. 'The Death of Slavery,' does not please me much but I can think of nothing else." Accompanied by three collateral prints of Bryant (two depicting an elder Bryant in profile with full beard, one portraying Bryant in his younger years). Collateral file also contains a partial printing of "The Death of Slavery," dated May 1866. |
| Subjects | African American History Slavery Poetry Literature and Language Arts Health and Medical Marriage Emancipation Emancipation Proclamation |
| People | Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) Fields, James Thomas (1817-1881) |
| Place written | Roslyn, New York |
| Theme | Reconstruction; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans; Arts & Literature; The American Civil War |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Related documents | The death of slavery |