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Autograph letter signed, to Helen Hamlin, with manuscript poem. Cambridge, 20 June 1879.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.

3 pages, 7 by 4.4 inches. To the daughter of Augustus Hamlin, once Surgeon-General of Maine, Longfellow sends thanks for the gift of a pen, made of iron from the prison of Chillon, where François de Bonnivard was held, wood from the U.S.S. Constitution, and gems from Siberia, Ceylon, and Maine, and he encloses a holograph manuscript of a poem about that pen: "Today I send you some lines, not written with the Pen, but about the Pen. I find that my hand is fettered by that bit of Bonnivard's chain and moves more easily with a lighter quill...." Longfellow... more info

Price: $4,350.00

The Golden Legend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. Original brown cloth, light wear to extremities. Inscribed by Longfellow on the front endpaper "From the author. 1851". Pencil note on front pastedown (from which a bookplate may have been removed) "Gift of Professor Longfellow". BAL 12102 ... more info

Price: $750.00