Autograph letter signed from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to [James T.?] Fields [manuscript], 1871 May 20.

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Autograph letter signed from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to [James T.?] Fields [manuscript], 1871 May 20.

A short note: "Will be with you before two o'clock. Delmonico impossible, with thanks."

1 leaf ; 19 x 11 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7995320

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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