BIB_ID
453755
Accession number
MA 23908
Creator
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Credit line
Gift of Susan Jaffe Tane in honor of the Morgan's Centennial, 2024.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11 cm
Notes
The signature is pasted on and dated 1880. The original signature has been cut away, leading to loss of text.
Provenance
RR Auction, January 2013, Catalog 401, Item 345; Susan Jaffe Tane.
Summary
Discussing his sittings for the photographer John Adams Whipple; writing "I have been twice to Whipple, and should have been again, but for the rainy week we have had. The report thus far is; body and books successful: face not satisfactory to Gods or men. Hawthorne and Emerson have already sat for you, but not with entire success. I told Mr. Whipple you were in haste. He is kind, but slow in the harness. Next time I will put a snapper on the whip. I expect to see both Hawthorne and Emerson today: and will tell them how important it is."
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