signed first edition Letter
7 November 1869 · Cambridge
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
Cambridge, 7 November 1869. Letter. Normal folds from mailing. Near Fine. A 3-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on an 8-3/4" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to "My Dear Mrs. Lawrence" on his stay in Florence. In part: "Friday is certainly an unlucky day; for on Friday I called at your hotel and was so unfortunate as not to find you.... I saw more than once the sunny Torrigiani gardens, and the empty house. I saw also many friends of yours, who regretted your absence, and spoke of you as you would like to be spoken of; and finally I shook hands with you in Powers' Studio, which was a kind of welcome and farewell to Florence." SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow." (Inventory #: 017709)