LONGFELLOW
(Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, American Poet)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Gould,
explaining that "For many years, owing to the bad state of my eyes, and the extreme delicacy of the task, I have declined to sit in judgement on any poems submitted to me. I trust therefore that you will not think it unkind or uncivil in me if I fail to meet your wishes in respect to your 'Asphodels'; a very attractive title, almost sufficient in itself to make me swerve from my purpose ..." but saying that if he concedes in one case he "must in another, and so on to the end of an endless chapter ..." but sending his best wishes for her success with the volume and that she will find a good publisher and a "sympathetic welcome from the world of readers ...", 4 sides 8vo., Cambridge, 7th March
Item Date:
1856
Stock No:
1817
£425
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[LONGFELLOW
(Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, American Poet)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo by Elliott & Fry
showing him head and shoulders looking slightly to one side, 4" x 2½", no place, no date. circa
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
40819
£75
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LONGFELLOW
(Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, American Poet)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
agreeing "with great pleasure to comply with your request and have my name added to the list of Stewards on the occasion of the annual dinner of the Newsvendor's Benevolen and Provident Institution. As I cannot be present I enclose an order for a small balance at my banker's ...", 2 sides 8vo., Cambridge, 2nd March
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
39074
£375
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LONGFELLOW
(Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, American Poet)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
thanking him for his “friendly letter and the ‘Cantata’ that came with it, and beg you to accept my most cordial thanks for this mark of your regard. I have not yet been able to have the music played and sung, as that is no very easy matter, and I will not wait for that to acknowledge the honor you have done me by your composition. If faith be ‘the substance of things unseen’, why not of things unheard? So I listen and seem to hear the song, and thank the composer...”, 3 sides 8vo., Cambridge, 8th November
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
42251
£450
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[LOTI
(Pierre, pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud, 1850-1923, French Naval Officer and Novelist known for his exotic novels)]
Large original unsigned photo from the Cliche Veuve Delphin, Rochfort, in the Gallerie Contemporaire
showing him half length standing, wearing uniform, 9" x 7¼" on page 13½" x 10", no place, no date, circa
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0
Stock No:
38455
£175
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