Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1902 — TO RESTORE WHITTIER'S HOME [ARTICLE]

TO RESTORE WHITTIER'S HOME

Haverhill House, Damaged by Fire, Is to Be Rebuilt. Boston dispatch: The Whittier homestead at Haverhill, which was damaged by fire, is to be restored on exactly the old lines. The ancient furniture and the desk of his grandfather, on which Whittier wrote his first verses—and, as it happens, also the last poem he ever wrote —will go back where it stood two generations, and perhaps three, before the poet’s birth.