Letter from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Cambridge, to an unidentified recipient, 1851 January 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing "I think I can get Mr. Tupper's poem translated into the Ojibeway language, which I suppose will do as well as the Cherokee. I can accomplish this if Kagegagabow is still here. Should he be in New York you had better call upon him; and this letter may serve as an introduction if you need one. I think he will be very happy to be of service to Mr. Tupper, with whose writings he can hardly fail to be already acquainted"; referring to Tupper as "the author of 'Proverbial Philosophy'"; adding in a postcript that if his correspondent does not hear from him in a week, "it will be because I cannot find the Chief, with whom I wish to confer about the translation. His English name, you remember, is George Copway."