BIB_ID
300642
Accession number
MA 234.28
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1881 May 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 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 her letter; quoting from [Friedrich] Schiller; telling her to visit in a week or so when the lilacs are blooming to "see Cambridge in its best attire."
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