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Autograph letter signed with initials : Cambridge, Mass., to Helen Mar Bean, 1881 Jan. 14.

BIB_ID
300634
Accession number
MA 234.23
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1881 Jan. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Mentioning reviews of the "The Masque of Pandora"; noting that his poem [in the play] "has been so mutilated" that it is barely recognizable; mentioning "Mr. Dudley Buck's 'Scenes from the Golden Legend.'"