BIB_ID
300653
Accession number
MA 234.33
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Display Date
1881 Nov. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Includes a printed message (p. 3) after the autograph note: "On account of illness, Mr. Longfellow finds it impossible to answer any letters at present. He can only acknowledge their receipt, and regret his inability to do more."
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1909.
Summary
Telling her that he is still too ill to see visitors; noting that he had to have a special message printed to respond to letters from strangers.
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