A Guide to the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection, 1905-1939 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Collection 6221-au

A Guide to the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection, 1905-1939

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The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6221-au

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

6221-au

Title

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection 1905-1939

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of 10 items.

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection, Accession #6221-au, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was transferred on 1992 August 14.

Scope and Content Information

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence between booksellers, collectors and scholars about the collecting and studying of the works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Topics discussed include first editions, inscriptions in Longfellow's hand, a diary describing a meeting with Longfellow in Europe in 1835, an autograph dedication to Longfellow, and a previously unattributed Longfellow poem, a photograph of which is included.

Contents List

Letter from P.K. Foley, Boston, Massachusetts, to Frank Maier 1905 Oct 28

ALS. 2 p.

Discusses the difficulty in locating a genuine first edition of Kavanagh and the differences between the first, second, and third editions; he also mentions The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott and Snow-Bound by John Greenleaf Whittier.

Letter from Dodd, Mead and Company, New York City, to Phillip G. Brown, Portland, Maine 1908 Apr 17

TLS. 1 p.

Offers to send on approval the first and second editions of two of the early school books compiled by Longfellow, Elements of French Grammar and French Exercises ; the first edition, published in Portland in 1830 in one volume, was still in the original binding, uncut with paper label and the errata slips.

Letter from Charles E. Goodspeed, Boston, Massachusetts, to Carroll A. Wilson, New York City 1929 Apr 3

TLS. 1 p.

Concerning two inscribed copies of Hyperion , Goodspeed believes them both to be in Longfellow's hand but is sure that the inscribed copy of Il Pesceballo is not in Longfellow's writing.

Letter from Clara Von Jordan, Herischdorfi, Riesengebirge, to [?] 1930 Nov 25

TL (C). 1 p.

Offers to let her correspondent see the diaries written by her grandmother during a journey through Europe, ca. 1835, with their notations about meeting Longfellow and an album containing German songs, signed by Longfellow which he gave to her grandmother as a Christmas present; she also says how thankful she is that her grandmother "did not live to see and to endure all the hardships that Germany had to go through as the consequences of the great forced upon war, and that Germany still is enduring in the great campaign of lies".

Letter from P.K. Foley, Boston, Massachusetts, to Mr. [Carroll A. ?] Wilson 1932 Jan 13

ALS. 1 p.

Promises to keep him informed if any volumes of interest turn up and mentions a note of his concerning The Alarm-Bell of Atri in a reference work on Longfellow.

Letter from Lawrance Thompson, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, to Carroll [A. Wilson?] 1935 Jan 23

TLS. 2 p.

Discusses his questions about an autograph dedication (attached to this letter) to Longfellow by George Lowell Austin who wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: His Life, His Works, His Friendships , published in 1883; Longfellow translations; and the progress made on his new Gertrude Stein bibliography which he is doing "because Gertrude Stein can't be read, she is bound to be collected."] with an autograph dedication, "To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This Volume in Inscribed as a Token of Personal Affection and Esteem. By the Author." [George L. Austin.

Letter from P.D. Howe, to Lawrance Thompson, Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey 1939 May 10

TLS (C). 1 p.

Confirms his theory that the second poem, "Daughter of Coelus" in Boston Prize Poems , Boston, 1824, was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow because ultraviolet ray photography revealed the words "I sent" in Longfellow's hand on a copy of the book in the Harvard Library] with a photograph of the page in question clearly showing Longfellow's notation attached to this letter.

Letter from O.W. Long, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, to [Carroll A. ?] Wilson n.y. Oct 24

ALS. 2 p. on 1 l.

Forwards a reprint of his article on Goethe and Longfellow , discusses [J.T. ?] Hatfield's book on Longfellow, and mentions his research in California.