Whittier

She was shot five times in the chest in her Mercedes, driving down Whittier Drive, a leafy dark street in Beverly Hills.

Whittier speaks in burning verse to more than thirty thousand, in the National Era.

Two years later comes the "Chapel of the Hermits," and with it the second epoch in Whittier's poetic career.

Mr. Whittier was present at these picnics whenever able, and, as has been said, sometimes wrote a poem to be read there.

Whittier offered up "thanks for the fugitive slave law; for it gave occasion for 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'"

Still there are many strong passages in the lyrics written by Whittier during the civil war of 1861-65.