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Excerpt from The Literary News, 1939, Vol. 9: A Monthly Journal of Current Literature
Mr. Whittier lives with near relatives at their residence, something more than a mile north west of the principal village of the town. The place is reached by a northerly branch from a road leading west to Middleton. The locality is marked by the numerals 46 upon Mr. Upham's map of Salem village. The old Boston Path, ' an inland road, leading through Medford and Reading to Ipswich and Newburyport and the northern settlements, passed, by an alternative and scarcely secondary line, directly by the site of this residence. This path may still be traced with carefulness and much crossing of pastures; and in visiting the place any reader who chooses may follow it.
The spot is a delightful one. The house it self is spacious and hospitable, modern as to com fort and convenience, and venerable enough for dignity and homelike looks. The material is wood, and the color a light brown. It is planted somewhat broadly and at length upon the ground, with pillars on either side reaching to nearly the full height of the building. An addition has lately been made toward the east, and in this wing of the building are the apartments specially de voted to Mr. Whittier.
His private sitting-room, or study, if you enter it, you will find to be a room furnished for use and ease, warmed with its fire of coal in an open grate, and with no aspect of newness and unfamiliarity with life, but looking much as if its companionable and benignant occupant might have been at home in it for a quarter of a century.
And it is here, at his dear Oak Knoll, that we love best to picture Whittier to ourselves, seated beneath the ample veranda, old, and well-nigh deaf, but still singing in strains that have touched the sympathies of millions.
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