BIB_ID
300582
Accession number
MA 234.1
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1879 May 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 35 autograph letters signed from Longfellow to Helen Mar Bean. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 234.1-35).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Explaining that "want of time" prevents him from "going into any detailed criticisms of the many manuscripts" people send him; telling her that he read her manuscripts "with much interest and pleasure"; adding that he thinks the manuscripts "have much merit both of conception and execution."
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