signed first edition Letter
8 October 1872 · Cambridge
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
Cambridge, 8 October 1872. Letter. Normal fold from mailing. Near Fine. A 2-1/2-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED with his initials on three sides of a 7-3/4" x 4-7/8" sheet of paper, folded once, to his publisher James Fields. In full: "I want you and Mrs. Fields, with all your guests, to come to supper after W. MacDonald's lecture at the Port on Thursday evening next. Will you arrange this little party, and let me know if it be possible? And do you think it will be agreeable to the Lecturer? I enclose a note of invitation to him [not present]." SIGNED "H. W. L." (Inventory #: 017712)