BIB_ID
300603
Accession number
MA 234.12
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1880 June 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 cm + envelope
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).
With postmark and stamp.
With postmark and stamp.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Apologizing for not writing sooner; saying he will not get to Nahant before July and will only be able to stay for a day or two; hoping she finds "the sea breezes of Swampscott invigorating, and not too cold."
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