Henry Wadswoth Longfellow papers, 1819-1928.

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Henry Wadswoth Longfellow papers, 1819-1928.

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Includes journals, manuscripts of poems and prose works (many with notes and draft copies); lectures, personal account books and business papers, commonplace books, scrapbooks, and clippings. There are also notes and manuscripts on European languages and literatures; notes on Dante's Divine Comedy, together with a minute book, 1881- 1928, of the Dante Society, of which Longfellow was the first president; and records of classes taught at Harvard.

227 volumes (15 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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