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[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