BIB_ID
300650
Accession number
MA 234.32
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1881 Sept. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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
Telling her he has not answered her letter because he has not been able to think of a good title for her poem; suggesting various Greek titles.
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