BIB_ID
300648
Accession number
MA 234.30
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1881 June 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 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 the flowers and apologizing for not writing; noting that he has "nothing left of [his children's] childhood but the wonderful pre-raphaelite drawings they made"; advising her to write down her children's "wise sayings" so she will always remember them.
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