BIB_ID
300615
Accession number
MA 234.18
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1880 Oct. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 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; offering his condolences on her sister's death; discussing a portrait she was considering having Ernest Longfellow paint.
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