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Daniel Ricketson
writer from New Bedford, Massaschetts; friend of Emerson, Ellery Channing, Henry David Thoreau, and other Transcendentalists Daniel Ricketson was born at New Bedford, Massachusetts on July 30, 1813 and lived the remainder of his life in New Bedford. Kunitz & Haycraft note that "[t]here is little information concerning his early education except that he studied law and gave up the idea of entering the profession to enjoy the literary and political pursuits made possible by the security of his personal fortune." [Stanley Kunitz & Howard Haycraft, American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature 652 (New York: H.W. Wilson & Co., 1938)]
Poetry Daniel Ricketson, The Autumn Sheaf: A Collection of Miscellaneous Poems (New Bedford, Massachusetts: The author, 1869) [online text] _____________, The Factory-Bell and Other Poems (New Bedford [Massachusetts]: E. Anthony & Sons, printers, 1873) Writings Daniel Ricketson, The History of New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts: Including a History of the Old Township of Dartmouth and the Present Townships of Westport, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven, from their Settlement to the Present Time (New Bedford: Published by the author, 1858) [online text] Anna Ricketson & Walton Ricketson (eds.), Daniel Ricketson and His Friends: Letters Poems Sketches Etc. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co./The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902) [online text] (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1979)(New York: AMS Press, 1985) ____________________________ (eds.), New Bedford of the Past (Boston: Houghton, Mifflint, 1903)) [online text] |
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