BIB_ID
300556
Accession number
MA 233.8
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1865 July 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 16.7 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
Describing his family's activities at Nahant; reporting that lessons for the children "are reduced to a minimum" of "only the accomplishments -- piano-forte practice and French"; mentioning that he is reading Wilkie Collins' Armadale.
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