BIB_ID
300538
Accession number
MA 233.2
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1855 Oct. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 15.3 cm
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)
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Sotheran, 1909.
Summary
Telling her that he will get her deposit from the bank "any day that [she] will come out with [her] little book"; saying that others will have better advice about the best way of transmitting the money to her brother; inviting her to visit them in Cambridge during this "golden weather."
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