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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Am 1340

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow papers

Overview

Papers of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Dates

  • Creation: 1819-1928

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.

Copyright:

Harvard purchased all rights controlled by the Longfellow Trust, including copyrights, in 1976.

Conditions Governing Use

Images linked to this finding aid are intended for public access and educational use. This material is owned and/or held by the Houghton Library, and is provided solely for the purpose of teaching or individual research. Any other use, including commercial reuse, mounting on other systems, or other forms of redistribution requires the permission of the curator.

Extent

15 linear feet (237 volumes and 2 boxes)

Includes journals, manuscripts of poems and prose works (many with notes and draft copies); lectures, personal account books and business papers, commonplace books, scrapbooks, and clippings. There are also notes and manuscripts on European languages and literatures; notes on Dante's Divine Comedy, together with a minute book, 1881- 1928, of the Dante Society, of which Longfellow was the first president; and records of classes taught at Harvard.

Biographical / Historical

Longfellow was an American poet.

Arrangement

Arranged by topic.

Other Finding Aids

A bound inventory is available on-site at Houghton Library in a curatorial file.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

*54M-8. Deposited by the Trustees of the Longfellow House Trust; received: 1954; purchased: 1976.

2014M-166. [Item (110), first page of Inferno Canto I] Purchased with funds from the Louis J. Appell Jr. Fund for Early American Literature and History and the Jacob Blanck Book Fund, 2015 May 27.

Processing Information

The S.V. numbers listed with the items appear to represent numbers assigned when the material was housed in the "Study Vault" at Craigie House. This arrangement was largely preserved in Houghton cataloging.

Processing Information

A small group of translations, manuscripts, letters, indexes, and sample bindings were identified in December 2022 during a collections management project, and were added at the end of the collection by Betts Coup, 2023.

Title
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow papers: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou00425

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

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