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Cabinet card photograph by Warren's Portraits, 3/4 seated

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, three-quarter length portrait, seated. Notes from collector inscribed on verso.

GLC05142

Autograph book and letter from Abraham Lincoln [Decimalized .01- .02]

GLC04035

Collection of autographs, quotations, and letters.

Consists of eighty-four signatures, most of which were obtained by McNear between 1860 and 1861. Incorporating numerous historical figures, the book includes autographs from (among others) Horace Greeley, James Buchanan, William Lloyd Garrison...

GLC04035.02

[Allegorical verses on slavery]

Written in Harriet Beecher Stowe's hand. Her clipped signature ("H B Stowe") has been pasted to the end of the poem. Despite being in Stowe's hand and having the addition of Stowe's signature, both poems are actually 1842 works on slavery by Henry...

GLC05570

[Union autograph and sentiment album]

Includes thirty-five autographed quotations and sentiments, and ten signatures. This collection was possibly prepared for sale by the United States Sanitary Commission at the April 1864 Metropolitan Fair, held in New York City. The sentiments and...

GLC06620

to Roberto Brothen

Requests a copy of the, "The Book of the Sonnet," by Leigh Hunt and S. Adams Lee be sent to him as well as a copy of "The Marque of Poets." Informs Brothen that Longfellow has written him for permission to print his own work, "The Marshes of Glynn,"...

GLC02453.21

Homes Of American Authors: Comprising Anecdotical, Personal And Descriptive Sketches, By Various Writers.

One book published by G. P. Putnam and Co. dated 1853. Book contains illustrations of authors' residencies from original drawings. Features the homes of John James Audubon, James K. Paulding, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, George Bacnroft...

GLC09690.01

Letter to Mr. W. H. Sutherland

One letter from Henry Longfellow to W. H. Sutherland, dated June 19, 1877. Longfellow informs Sutherland that the pseudonym "Joshua Coffin" was mistakenly ascribed to him in the "Homes Of American Authors" book. Longfellow says that Joshua Coffin was...

GLC09690.02

The Atlantic Monthly [Vol. 11 no. 60 (January 1863) - Vol. 11 no. 68 (June 1863)]

One bound volume of The Atlantic Monthly dated January to June 1863. The volume contains 54 articles, 27 poems, and 20 literary reviews. Some notable articles are; America the Old World by Professor Louis Agassiz; Banneker, Benjamin, The Negro...

GLC09900

Washington Irving and His Friends

One undated engraving of a group of men entitled Washington Irving and His Friends. Includes Washington Irving, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Kirke...

GLC08878.0317

[Civil War era newspaper clippings]

Four newspaper clippings possibly contained within the 1863 diary of Calvin Symmes Mixter (refer to GLC06583.02), a Civil War soldier. No publication information is included. The first clipping contains Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin's poem "Ode to...

GLC06583.05

to Frederick Douglass

Dated "Thursday." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (who had a home in Nahant) informed Sumner that false words about Douglass had been attributed to Sumner. Sumner clarifies that he stated that whatever Douglass may think of the "Presidential indignity"...

GLC00470.02

The Negro forget-me-not songster, the only work published, containing all the Negro songs, that have ever appeared.

Signed on free front endpaper by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "H. W. Longfellow." Original cloth spine laid onto modern leather. Title on spine: "Nigga forget-me-not songster." Published by Turner & Fisher. Songs written in "dialect," and some are...

GLC00796

Homes Of American Authors: Comprising Anecdotal, Personal And Descriptive Sketches, By Various Writers. [Decimalized .01- .02]

One book published by G. P. Putnam and Co. dated 1853 and one letter from an envelope adhered to the inside of the book's back cover. Book contains illustrations of authors' residencies from original drawings. Envelope contains a letter from Henry...

GLC09690

[Central Mining Company Ten Dollar Note]

A ten dollar note produced by the Central Mining Company in Eagle Harbor, Michigan. It has a number of signatures on both sides and a facsimile of a portrait of Longfellow's daughters in the bottom left corner.

GLC09620.363