Letters, 1847-1880.

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Letters, 1847-1880.

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Seven letters written by Longfellow between 1847 and 1880. The first, dated April 30, 1847, is addressed to Mrs. Howitt; in it Longfellow talks about the poet Ferdinand Freiligrath, a mutual friend, and also declines to contribute an article to a journal, citing eye problems and other engagements. The second letter, dated March 7, 1850 and addressed to Dear Sir, is written to send a requested autograph and a stanza of a poem, neither of which is present in the letter. The third letter is dated March 16, 1852 and addressed to Miss Dawson. In it Longfellow thanks her for her praise of his writing, mentions a poem by the German poet Salis, and talks briefly about his book, Golden legend. The fourth letter, written from Nahant, Mass., July 27, 1874, to Dear Sir, relates to a request for an autograph of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The fifth and sixth letters, written May 17, 1878 and February 3, 1880, are to Mrs. Haven and to Mr. Haven, perhaps Susan Haven and George Wallis Haven. The letter to Mrs. Haven relates to her invitation to Longfellow and his visit to Portsmouth, N.H. The letter to Mr. Haven discusses writings of John Elwyn of Portsmouth, N.H. The seventh letter is undated and addressed to My dear Fields, presumably James Thomas Fields; it discusses additions to a book being published and mentions the work The Belfry of Bruges. The collection also contains an autograph of Longfellow; a photograph of him taken by James Wallace Black, a Boston photographer; three illustrations of Longfellow from unidentified publications; and copies of the poems The two angels and The poet and his song clipped from unidentified newspapers.

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Salis-Seewis, Johann Gaudenz ˜vonœ 1762-1834

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Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896

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Illustrator; Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of F.O.C. Darley [graphic] / J.W. Black. [ca. 1870] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220203675 ...

Haven, George Wallis, 1808-1895

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George Wallis Haven (1808-1895) was a banker and scholar who resided in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth Phi Beta Kappa in 1828, and received a law degree from Harvard in 1835. Haven served as a director of the Rockingham Bank for forty years, during which time he frequently lectured in Portsmouth. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a personal friend of Haven--Haven's sister Susan married Emerson's brother William in 1838--and on at least two occasions (November 20, 1838 & Februar...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...

Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 1810-1876

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German poet and revolutionary. From the description of Letters, to Karl Heinzen, 1845-1848. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34367510 Ferdinand Freiligrath was a popular and important 19th century German poet. His evolution from early lyrical poems to mature, politically aware works mirrors Germany's literary transition from Romanticism to social concern. Freiligrath was also a significant translator of English works into German. From the description...

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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James Thomas Fields, American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1817. At the age of 17, he went to Boston to clerk in a booksellers shop. While clerking, he often wrote for newspapers and in 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1846 as Ticknor and Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. He was the publisher of several prominent contemporary American and British writers. Besides just publishing the authors, h...

Elwyn, John Langdon, 1801-1876

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Haven, Susan Perkis

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