Letter from Henry W. Longfellow to an Unidentified Male

Letter from Henry W. Longfellow to an Unidentified Male
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Release: 1844
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This undated note is addressed to an unidentified male, and thanks him for a tree, and accompanied a gift of the writer's autograph (signature), which is no longer with the note. There is an inscription at the foot: 'written 28, Jan 1844'. This item bears the earlier collection number (accession number) [M]337, and is accompanied by an exhibition label.

Autograph Letter Signed from Henry W. Longfellow, Cambridge, to Mrs. Clark

Autograph Letter Signed from Henry W. Longfellow, Cambridge, to Mrs. Clark
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Release: 1873
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Longfellow mentions hearing that Mrs. Clark was in Rome when he was in Naples in the spring of 1869, and regrets that he was not able to meet her then. Makes reference to reading her book of travels "with great delight" and says he awaits the new volume impatiently. Tells her that her father came out to lunch with him and that the little picture of the Sphinx she gave him now hangs on the wall.

Autograph Letter Signed from Henry W. Longfellow, Cambridge, to Josefine Freiin Von Knorr, Vienna

Autograph Letter Signed from Henry W. Longfellow, Cambridge, to Josefine Freiin Von Knorr, Vienna
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Release: 1874
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Thanks Knorr for both her letter and her new volume of poems, which he has been reading "with delight." Quotes "those admonitory works of Shakespear" ("The flighty purpose never is o'ertook/ Unless the deed go with it." (Macbeth Act IV, scene i)). He has also received the two volumes of Graf Wickenburg, but he requests that Knorr relay the message of his thanks, since he does not have Wickenburg's address. With envelope addressed to Knorr, 1 Wollzeile 1er Stock, Vienna, Austria.

Letter to Howard W. Leeke

Letter to Howard W. Leeke
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Release: 1880
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Longfellow sends his autograph which was later tipped in a copy of the revised edition of the Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Cambridge, 1879). Accompanying the autograph is a tipped in portrait of Longfellow.