BIB_ID
127086
Accession number
MA 925.14
Creator
Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874.
Display Date
1858 Feb. 19.
Credit line
Bequest of Annie Fields, 1915.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Part of an album of manuscript poems and letters of nineteenth-century English and American authors collected by Mrs. Annie Fields, author and literary hostess in Boston. Manuscripts in the album are described in individual records; see MA 925 for more information.
The letter is written from 32 Weymouth Street and signed B.W. Procter.
The poem is dated 1857.
The letter is written from 32 Weymouth Street and signed B.W. Procter.
The poem is dated 1857.
Provenance
Annie Fields.
Summary
Noting that he is sending him a copy of "The Sea" as Fields requested; discussing publication of his book; asking Fields to "offer a copy [of his book] to Mrs. Longfellow, & if there be a Mrs. Emerson to that lady also"; mentioning the Boston Magazine; reporting that he has bronchitis.
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