Autograph letter signed : Langham Hotel [London], to the Governesses' Benevolent Institution, 1868 July 3.

Record ID: 
120649
Accession number: 
MA 233.9
Author: 
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description: 
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.7
Notes: 

Part of a collection of 8 autograph letters signed from Longfellow to Hannah Davie, one autograph letter signed from Longfellow to the Governesses' Benevolent Institution, and 12 small pieces of paper containing quotations in Longfellow's hand. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 233.1-9); the quotations are described in a collection record (MA 233.10).

Summary: 

Recommending Miss Hannah Davie as a governess.

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.