M.F. Force letter, 1852.

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M.F. Force letter, 1852.

ALS (13 February 1852; Shady Hill, Cambridge, Mass.) to Force from Charles Eliot Norton providing details of his and others' opinions of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. Norton also mentions Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's resignation of his professorship at Harvard University and the possibility of Samuel Eliot replacing him, and reviews Julia Ward Howe's book of poetry titled, Passion Flowers (1854).

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