BIB_ID
300637
Accession number
MA 234.25
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1881 Mar. 20.
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 some pictures she sent; mentioning that his son, Ernest Longfellow, is painting his portrait; asking if she has read [Thomas] Carlyle's Reminiscences and calling it "a strange book, full of interesting matter, and of rather indiscrete [sic] revelations of things intimate, and severe judgments of men in general."
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