BIB_ID
300635
Accession number
MA 234.24
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1881 Feb. 1.
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.
With postmark and stamp.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Thanking her for an anecdote she sent him and telling her that "it is all fiction, and a very poor kind of fiction"; telling her, "Hereafter you may safely distrust all similar stories in the newspapers"; reporting that they are "buried in snow"; mentioning that Mr. Greene is visiting him.
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