BIB_ID
300631
Accession number
MA 234.20
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1880 Nov. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm + envelope
Notes
A clipping of a poem entitled "The National Thanksgiving" and signed "M.C.W." is attached to p. 3. This poem originally appeared in the Boston Transcript, LIII, no. 16,446 [Nov. 24, 1880].
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Discussing Thanksgiving poems and sending her a clipping of a poem from "last evening's Transcript"; saying that he hopes she will like her portrait better when it is finished [Bean was having Ernest Longfellow paint her portrait].
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