Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20.

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Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20.

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Responding to her thanks for the gift of "Dante volumes," and thanking her again for the gift of a "Dante relic." With a copy of a letter (1944 Nov. 29) from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana to Elinor Gregory Metcalf of the Athenaeum providing background information on the relic, a fragment from Dante's coffin.

1 item (4 p.) with envelope, in folder ; 26 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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