The list of Whittier’s chief publications up to the year 1857 contains seventeen titles: _Legends of New England_, 1831; _Moll Pitcher_, 1832 (revised edition 1840); _Justice and Expediency_, 1833; _Mogg Megone_, 1836; _Poems written during the Progress of the Abolition Question_, etc., 1837 (unauthorized issue); _Poems_, 1838; _Lays of my Home and Other Poems_, 1843; _The Stranger in Lowell_, 1845; _Voices of Freedom_, 1846; _The Supernaturalism of New England_, 1847; _Leaves from Margaret Smith’s Journal_, 1849; _Poems_, 1849;[36] _Old Portraits and Modern Sketches_, 1850; _Songs of Labor and Other Poems_, 1850; _The Chapel of the Hermits and Other Poems_, 1853; _Literary Recreations and Miscellanies_, 1854; _The Panorama and Other Poems_, 1856. The founding of the ‘Atlantic Monthly’ (1857) gave Whittier a more assured place. His work was sought and the pay was generous. He became an overseer of Harvard College in 1858. In 1860 the college made him a Master of Arts, and in 1866 a Doctor of Laws. His home for many years was in Amesbury, the farm at East Haverhill having been sold in 1836. After the death of his mother and younger sister he passed much of his time with kinsfolk at the house known as ‘Oak Knoll,’ in Danvers. For all his admiration of women, Whittier never married. He enjoyed allusions to a supposititious Mrs. Whittier. Writing to his niece, Mrs. Pickard, about some friend who was unhappy over political defeat, Whittier said: ‘I told him I had been in the same predicament ... and got abused worse than he did, for I was charged with ill-treating my wife!’ Whittier was a birthright member of the Society of Friends and influential in their councils. His advice was much sought and freely given in terms of blended modesty, good sense, and humor. During the last twenty years of his life Whittier published the following volumes: _Home Ballads and Poems_, 1860; _In War Time and Other Poems_, 1864; _National Lyrics_, 1865; _Snow-Bound_, 1866; _The Tent on the Beach and Other Poems_, 1867; _Among the Hills and Other Poems_, 1869; _Ballads of New England_, 1870; _Miriam and Other Poems_, 1871; _The Pennsylvania Pilgrim and Other Poems_, 1872; _Mabel Martin_, 1874; _Hazel-Blossoms_, 1875; _The Vision of Echard and Other Poems_, 1878; _The King’s Missive and Other Poems_, 1881; _The Bay of Seven Islands and Other Poems_, 1883; _Saint Gregory’s Guest and Recent Poems_, 1886; _At Sundown_, 1892. The honors accorded him on his seventieth, eightieth, and eighty-fourth anniversaries gave Whittier much happiness. He was especially pleased to learn that the bells of St. Boniface, in Winnipeg, Manitoba (celebrated in his ‘Red River Voyageur’), were rung for him at midnight of December 17, 1891. Said the poet in his letter to Archbishop Tâché: ‘Such a delicate and beautiful tribute has deeply moved me. I shall never forget it.’