BIB_ID
300632
Accession number
MA 234.21
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1880 Dec. 12.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 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
Thanking her for a newspaper paragraph; asserting that he has "positively declined sitting for a bust"; mentioning a visit from his sister.
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