Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Overview
Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Dates
- Creation: 1761-1904
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1820-1888
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Conditions Governing Use
Harvard purchased all rights controlled by the Longfellow Trust, including copyrights, in 1976.
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Extent
36 linear feet (73 boxes)This voluminous file of incoming letters from more than 6000 correspondents includes letters from literary figures and scholars in Great Britain and Europe, as well as the U.S., including Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Thomas Fields, George Washington Greene, Charles Appleton Longfellow, Charles Eliot Norton, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Sumner, Alfred Tennyson, and Samuel Ward. There are several boxes of letters requesting Longfellow's autograph, seeking a lecture appearance, offering honorary memberships, and sending birthday greetings. Also included are a few literary manuscripts by authors other than Longfellow, and some letters from various persons to other addressees.
Biographical / Historical
Longfellow was an American poet.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- bMS Am 1340.2: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- bMS Am 1340.3: Manuscripts by other hands; letters to other persons
- ___A. Manuscripts by various hands
- ___B. Letters not addressed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- bMS Am 1340.4: Requests for autographs
- bMS Am 1340.5: Honorary memberships
- bMS Am 1340.6: Requests for lectures
- bMS Am 1340.7: Birthday greetings
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposited by the Trustees of the Longfellow House Trust; received: 1954; purchased: 1976.
Index of Overseas and Foreign-Language Correspondents in bMS Am 1340.2: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
These names are arranged by broad geographical and linguistic groups. Thus, persons writing in German from any country are all listed under Germany, and so on. Users are warned that this index may not be absolutely comprehensive: foreigners writing in English from American addresses, while travelling or under similar circumstances, may have been unintentionally omitted.
Australia
- Adams, Robert Dudley
- Chambers, William C.
- Edwards, Henry
- Juba, Miss S. H. L. R.
- Lucas, Annie Esther
- Middleton, Alexander G.
- Packer, Frederick A.
- Ponton, T. Graham
- Reid, G. H.
- Sandbach, William
- Scrivenor, Frederick W.
- Shillinglaw, John J.
- Shoobridge, Annie M.
- Smith, Henry M.
- Whitcher, C. Fred
Brazil
- Alcantara, Pedro d', the real name for Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, 1825-1891.
- Doria, Franklin [formerly listed as Portugal]
- Rodrigues, J. C. [formerly listed as Portugal]
- Sousa Andrade, Joaquim
Denmark
- Abel, Valdemar
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Bolling, J. A.
- Freetzmann [C?]
- Hansen, Christian
- Hultin, C. M.
- Koeppen, Adolph Ludwig
- Pedersen, J.
- Rafn, Charles C.
- Royal Society of Northern Antiqaries
- Ruse, T.
- Sinding, T. Chr.
- Watt, Robert
France
- Alcantara, Pedro d'
- Ampere, J. J.
- Arnot-Cohn, Leontine
- Aron, Emile
- Arnoult, Emile
- Barbe- d'Aurevilly
- Banzabe, A. R.
- Bartholdi, F. A.
- Bassenger, Henry Guillaume
- Baudre, H.
- Beaugrand, Honore
- Beauregard, Philip T.
- Bedard, O. W.
- Bellin, Jacques
- Bernard, Thales
- Billiet, Lily E.
- Blaze de Bury, Marie
- Blier, Paul
- Bonaparte, Charlotte
- Bossange, Hector
- Brunel, Charles
- Bugard, B. F.
- Cadieux, J. N.
- Cappelle, Marie E.
- Carlier, A.
- Chabrol, G. de, vicomte
- Chambonniere [ ]
- Chasles, Emile
- Chasles, Philarete
- Chatelain, chevalier de
- Chevallier, Eugene
- Cohn, Leontine Arnot
- Combe, S. Beranger
- Cyr, Narcisse
- Depret, Louis
- Destain, P. R.
- Doudiet, Cecile
- Druguet, Gustave
- Dumez, Eugene
- Eschenauer, A.
- Faraut, P.
- Farrere, Eugene
- Fauvel-Gourand, F.
- Fechter, Charles
- Fertiaul, F.
- Filiatrault, W.
- Forel, L. de la
- Frechette, Louis H.
- Gabriac, comte de
- Gazette Francaise
- Gelbert, A.
- Gerard, G.
- Girard, Louis
- Girardot, F.
- Godefrin, A.
- Goubert, Eugene
- Gourand, Francois
- Goy, Anatole de.
- Gracerie, [ ] de la
- Grenier, E.
- Guillet, Isidore
- Guyot, A.
- Heimlicher, Marie
- Hugo, Victor
- Humbert [ ]
- Istria, Dora d'
- Jacob de la Cottiere, G. D.
- Jeanne, Gregoire
- Jung, Louise
- Kermis, Leonce
- Laborde, Leon, marquis de
- Lafayette, marquis de
- Lagasse, Charles
- Lambin [ ]
- Lanel, Charles
- LaPorte [Comte de]
- Laugel, Auguste
- Laugel, Elisabeth (Bates)
- Le Bron [ ]
- Leclerc, Louise H.
- LeMay, Pamphile
- Lenandouska, Mathilde
- Lewandos [Mme. Ch.]
- Loffler [Dr ]
- Lomon, E.
- Maltchyce, Mathilde de
- Manvers, Antonia
- Marie, T.
- Marion, Jules
- Marmier, Xavier
- Masson, Henry
- Miel [ ]
- Millien, Achille
- Miville de Chene, J. G. F.
- Modjeska, Helene
- Mont, Poldec
- Montreuil, F.
- Nault, J. Z.
- Nilsson, Christine
- Nordin, Guillaume de
- Patton, Ange Albert
- Perrot, Jules
- Perrot de la Gaillardiere [Mme.]
- Picard, Henri
- Poirier, Pascal
- Poussin, Guillaume Tell
- Poyen, Charles
- Quesne, Eugene
- Rabillon, Leonce
- Rive, Lucien de la
- Rive, William de la
- Roche, Emile de la
- Rouquette, Adrien
- Rouquette, Dominique
- Reichardt, H.
- Salette, Anatolie de la
- Sandrans, V. Cardon de
- Sartize, comte de.
- Souffray, Comte de
- Soule, Nelvil
- Soule, Pierre
- Souvy, I.
- Steiner, Louise
- Stoepel, Robert
- Sue, Jean B.
- Talbot, G. H.
- Talec [ ]
- Thomas, Frederic
- Trebutien, G. T.
- Verleijl, H.
Germany
- Adler, George J.
- Albers, Emma
- Arendt, Rudolph
- Arnold, Georg
- Auerbach, Berthold
- Baedeker, [ ]
- Baetheke, Ernst
- Bartz, George Ch.
- Bautenbacher, F. L.
- Becker, John H.
- Berthold, V.
- Bethe, Wilhelm
- Binzer, A. von
- Block, Julius
- Blumenfeld, Henriette
- Bodmer, G.
- Boettcher, Dorothea
- Bottger, Adolph
- Bordollo, Julius
- Brinckman, John T.
- Brockhaus, F. A.
- Chrobak, Dora
- Cohn, M.
- Cordes, August
- Cunz, Eugenie
- Damer, Gustavus
- Danse, Pauline
- Delffs, Sofie
- Deuster, P. V.
- Dickmann, E. H.
- Dickmann, Otto
- Dilg, Wilhelm
- Dippold, G. T.
- Dohrn, C. A.
- Ebbinghaus, Cl.
- Ebbinghaus, Friedrich
- Ebbinghaus, Otto
- Eben, Charles Theodore
- Eberhardt, Friederike
- Eichhorn, Charles
- Elze, Karl
- Engel, Eduard
- Ende, Amelia von
- Erichsen, Hugo
- Falckenberg, G. C. T.
- Fick, Heinrich
- Fleischer, Richard
- Fleischman, Alex
- Flugel, J. G.
- Frank, A.
- Freiligrath, Ferdinand
- Freiligrath, Ida
- Freiligrath, Kate
- Freitag, A.
- Freundt, Alexander
- Friedlander, J.
- Friedlander, Julius
- Furst, Livius
- Fuster, Anton
- Gage, William L.
- Gall, Louisa von
- Garnowsky, P.
- Gerhard, Frederick
- Goldschmidt, H. E.
- Grossmann, Eduard
- Gruss, Pauline
- Gunther, M.
- Haardt, Dr
- Hauselt, Marie
- Hempel, C. F.
- Hemsen, W.
- Hepp, Julie
- Herwig, Johanna
- Herzog, Emmy
- Hesse, Alexander
- Hesse, B.
- Heuberger, H. C.
- Hirschfeld, Johannes
- Hohenhausen, Elise de
- Holzamer, Joseph
- Hunold, Balthazar
- Hutten, Hugo R.
- Huzel, C.
- Immergrun, Paul Julius
- Jonnes, Isabella M.
- Julius, N. H.
- Keck, Karl
- Kellner, Louis
- Kiessling, Ferdinand
- Kindt, Hermann
- Kirn, Eduard
- Klaviz, G. von
- Kleeberg, C. Waldemar
- Klinckowstrom, Mary, baroness
- Knorr, Josephine
- Koehn, Julia
- Koester, Edward
- Kohl, J, G.
- Kommerell, [Prof. ]
- Krickmeyer, Eugen Eduard
- Kroeker, Kate (Freiligrath)
- Kuhne [Dr ]
- Kullberg, Hildur
- Laun, Adolf
- Lehwess, Joseph
- Leonhardi, D. H.
- Lieber, Francis
- Lieber, Matilda
- Lieber, Norman
- Lieder, Frederika von
- Lilienthal, M.
- Lipper, Albert
- Machattie, Isobel Jane
- Marx, Friedrich
- Mayer, Brantz
- Meier, H. H.
- Merckells, Georg
- Meyer, August B.
- Meyer, Gustave
- Mittelbach, Frederika
- Mittelbach, R.
- Muller, Gustav
- Muller, Johann
- Muller, Nicholas
- Nathan, Albert
- Nathan, Julius
- Nickles, E.
- Nielo, August Rudolf
- Oppenheimer, George
- Otto, Moritz
- Perabeau, Charles
- Perabeau, H.
- Perabo, Ernst
- Pfeiffer, Joseph
- Pfizer, Gustave
- Pletzer, H.
- Precht, Victor
- Preuss, F. W.
- Ramm, Jacques von
- Raster, Hermann
- Rau, Carl
- Raumer, Friedrich von
- Rauscher, Ernst
- Reinelt, Johann
- Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich Eugen
- Rirn, Eduard
- Roelker, Bernard
- Rohr, Lorenz
- Rosenthal, Julius
- Schauzenbach, [Prof. ]
- Scherb, Emmanuel Vitalis
- Schier, Charles H.
- Schlegel, K.
- Schlesinger, Bertha
- Schlesinger, Julie
- Schmidt, Johanna
- Schmitt, Fred Albert
- Schmitt, G. A.
- Schuchardt, Isabella
- Schultz, Hermann
- Siedhof, Carl
- Siedhof, Carl, Jr.
- Sihler, K. Elizabeth
- Silbergleit, L. G.
- Siller, Frank
- Simon, Carl Hermann
- Steiger, E.
- Stein, Louis
- Straubenmuller, J.
- Strodtman, Adolf
- Tauchnitz, Bernhard
- Taylor, Marie
- Teschier, Eugene
- Teussmaul, Otto
- Thies, Louis
- Tittmann, Clara
- Traub, Fanny
- Tuckermann [ ]
- Unneke, Mathilde Franziske
- Vagt, Hermann
- Valckenberg, Josef
- Voss, Hermann
- Walchner, Alfred
- Waldstein, Charles
- Wartegg, Ernest von Hesse
- Weber, T. Henry
- Weiss, John
- Weisse, J. A.
- Wertheimer, Frances
- Wesselhoeft, F. E.
- Wesselhoeft, Maria
- Wesselhoeft, Robert
- Wickenburg, Albrecht
- Wiebe, Edward
- Wieksmann, Sophy
- Witte, Carl
- Witter, Conrad
- Wittgenstein, Carolyn
- Wivild, N.
- Wolff, Harriot
- Wolff, Victor H.
- Wuppermann, Mary Lee
- Wijk, Olof
- Wyngaert, J. J. van den
- Zablonsky [Dr ]
- Zech, [Professor ]
- Zingerle, Ignaz
Great Britain and Ireland
- Acland, Sir Henry Wentworth
- Acland, T. Angelina
- Adams, A. B.
- Ainsworth, J. S.
- Ainsworth, Thomas
- Ainsworth, W. M.
- Aitchison, Ellen Elizabeth
- Allen, L. Barbara M.
- Alletson, May F.
- Allingham, William
- Alston, James
- Ambler, Benjamin George
- Anderton, William Elijah
- Angus, William Craibe
- Annesley, Alti
- Armistead, Wilson
- Armstrong, Richard Acland
- Arnell, Caroline Annie
- Arnold, James E.
- Ashbee, Elizabeth (Lavy)
- Ashe, Thomas
- Askham, John
- Atkinson, W. Blake
- Avison, Caroline
- Axon, William Edward Armytage
- Back, Emily
- Baily, J. P.
- Bain, James
- Banks, George Linnaeus
- Barnett, Henry N.
- Barnett, John
- Baron, John T.
- Bayliss, Sir Wycke
- Beckett, Charles
- Bell, Henry Glassford
- Bellew, J. M.
- Benjamin, Robert
- Bennett, Alfred
- Bennett, T. J. Wesley
- Bennett, W. C.
- Bennoch, Francis
- Benson, Edward White
- Bensutan, Esther L.
- Binns, R. W.
- Birch, Bessie
- Blake, Lovewell
- Blockley, John
- Boucher, J. B.
- Boughton, S. H.
- Boulton, H. E.
- Bourdillon, F. W.
- Bourne, John
- Boyce, J. Edward
- Brennan, Ed. St. John
- Bright, Henry Arthur
- Bright, John
- Brine, Elizabeth
- Brooks, [Mrs ]
- Brooks, Shirley
- Brown, John
- Brown, T. R.
- Brown, W. H.
- Brunton, Sir Thomas Lauder
- Bryce, James Bryce, viscount
- Buchheim, Emma S.
- Bunn, Alfred
- Burgon, John William
- Burr, A. E.
- Burrowes, Henry A.
- Burrowes, Rose
- Bussell, Euphemia S. G.
- Butler, Henry Montagu
- Caldwell, Anne Marsh
- Calvert, William
- Cameron, Julia Margaret
- Campbell, D. C.
- Camperdown, Lord
- Capern, Edward
- Capper, Samuel James
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Carmichael, Mary (Graham)
- Carpenter, Russell Lant
- Carryer, Alfred Percy
- Carter, George
- Catte, Louisa E.
- Caulfeild, Sophia
- Chapman, Jane Frances
- Christie, James C.
- Clarke, Fred W.
- Clarke, James G.
- Clarke, Mary Cowden
- Clarke, W. H.
- Clerk, Alice M.
- Cleveland, C. W.
- Clouston, T. G.
- Cochrane, Frances J.
- Cochrane, J. Inglis
- Cochrane, May L.
- Cocks & Co.
- Colburn, Zerah
- Cole, George
- Cole, Robert
- Collins, Wilkie
- Constable & Co.
- Cook, Eliza
- Cooper, Frederick
- Cooper, J. E.
- Costello, Dudley
- Costello, Louisa
- Costley, Thomas
- Cottett, James W.
- Couper, James
- Craik, Dinah Maria
- Craik, George Lillie
- Curwen, John
- Daldy, F. R.
- Dallas, Eneas Sweetland
- Dalrymple, Charles
- Davies, Peter H.
- Dayman, John
- Denny, Harmar Charles
- Deverall, William
- Dicey, A. V.
- Dick, Robert
- Dison, Cecilia
- Dohse, Frederick de
- Dolman, George
- Domett, Alfred
- D'Orsey, Alexander J. D.
- Doveton, F. B.
- Downer, George
- Drew, E. P.
- Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple
- Duggan, John
- Dunbar, David
- Dyne, [Rev. Dr. ]
- Eardley, E. G. Culling
- Eden, Robert
- Eden, W.
- Edgcomb, John Treeve
- Edgcomb, L. B.
- Edmondson, Thomas
- Edwards, Amelia B.
- Edwards, W. B. Waller
- Elkins, Frank A.
- Ellerton, J. L.
- Elliott, John Arthur
- Elliott, W.
- Elliott & Fry
- Ellis, Isabel
- Ellis, Joseph
- Engelbach, George F.
- Enoch, Frederick
- Everett, H. Sidney
- Faed, Thomas
- Farrer, Fanny
- Fellows, Eleanor
- Fellows, Louisa Mary
- Fells, William
- Ferguson, Elizabeth
- Ferguson, Robert
- Flockton, M. J.
- Flower, Edgar F.
- Forester, Ella
- Forster, John
- Forwood, W. B.
- Foss, M.
- Fowler, Julian De Courcy
- Fox, W. J.
- Frankland, John
- Freeland, H. W.
- Freeman, James
- Frere, W. E.
- Fry, Clarence E.
- Fry, Herbert
- Fulcher, Edmund Syer
- Fuller, I. J.
- Furnivall, F. J.
- Galbraith, Rose
- Gardiner, Mina Jane Allen
- Geberne, Isabel
- Gibson, Jane Grace
- Gibson, Julia Elizabeth
- Gibson, Margaret
- Gibson, S. A. Milner
- Gilbert, John
- Gilfillan, George
- Gillum, W. J.
- Gilman, R. J.
- Goddard, Arthur
- Going, Meta
- Golding, J.
- Goodman, John
- Graham, R.
- Greenbury, Thomas
- Greenhill, Joseph
- Greenwell, Dora
- Greves, J. E. H.
- Griffin, Charles
- Griffin, Richard & Co.
- Groome, Francis H.
- Gross, M. Isabella
- Grove, G.
- Guest, Edwin
- Gurney, Emilia
- Hall, Charlotte
- Hall, Fitzedward
- Hall, John Vine
- Hall, Anna Maria
- Hall, Newman
- Hall, S. C.
- Hamilton, A.
- Hancocks, T.
- Hardwicke, Lord
- Hardy, Lady Duffus
- Harris, J.
- Harris, John
- Harris, Josiah
- Harvey, Mary Frances
- Hatton, J. L.
- Haughton, G. D.
- Haweis, H. R.
- Hawker, Pauline A.
- Hawker, Robert Stephen
- Hawkins, Annie
- Hayward, Abraham
- Heath, Richard
- Heaton, George
- Heckethorne, Charles William
- Heine, E. L.
- Hellon, H. G.
- Herbert, Mary Elizabeth
- Herbert, Sidney Herbert, baron
- Herries, Isabelle M.
- Hicks, W. H.
- Hill, Herbert
- Hill, Louisa Mary
- Hill, Rosa F.
- Hill, William Haswell
- Hodges, J. Sidney
- Hodgson, Amelia A.
- Hodson, Henry Edward
- Holcombe, William Fred
- Holden, James
- Holder, C. W.
- Holland, Thomas Agar
- Hollond, John R.
- Holmes, John Williams
- Holt, David
- Hood, John Vernon
- Hornor, S. S.
- Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes,1st baron
- Houstoun, George L.
- Howard, Philip H.
- Howe, Russell
- Howell, Isabel M.
- Howes, E. F.
- Howitt, Mary
- Howitt, William
- Howson, John Saul
- Hughes, Thomas
- Humphreys, Margaret
- Hunt, Charles
- Hutchison, William J. M.
- Hutton, Henry Dix
- Ingelow, Jean
- Ingram, John H.
- Ireland, Alexander
- Jackson, J. E.
- Jackson, M.
- James, Sophie A. M.
- Jameson, Anna
- Johnson, Alice E.
- Jones, Hugh
- Jones, Walter W.
- Keatinge, E. F.
- Keene, Richard
- Kent, Charles
- Kent, W.
- Kenward, J.
- Kenyon, John
- Kingston, William H. G.
- Kislingbury, Emily
- Knight, William
- Knott, S. Dyer
- Lahee, Henry
- Lambert, Agnes
- Lane, Annie L.
- Lees, Maria J.
- Lefevre, G. Shaw
- Leighton, Francis Knyvett
- Leith, Alicia Amy
- Leith, John
- Lester, John W.
- Llewelyn, W. H.
- Lloyd, A. R.
- Logan, William
- Longmuir, J.
- Lothian, Robert
- Love, A.
- Lowe, Harriet A.
- Lumley, Arthur
- McAuslane, William T.
- MacCarthy, D. F.
- McCarthy, Justin H.
- MacDonald, George
- MacDonnell, S.
- Mackay, Charles
- Macmillan, Alexander
- McMillan, R. A.
- Maffei, A.
- Main, James Leslie
- Maitland, John F.
- Maitland, M. Fuller
- Mallett, Fanny
- Madge, Ellen
- Manning, J. B.
- Mantles, William
- Mapleson, Henry
- Marsh, Catherine
- Marshall, E.
- Marshall, Emma
- Marshall, George
- Marston, Westland
- Martin, J. Royle
- Martin, Theodore
- Mason, Woodward
- Maugham, W. C.
- Mayall, Arthur
- Metzler & Co.
- Milburn, W. H.
- Millar, J. H.
- Miller, Duncan S.
- Mills, Arthur
- Milman, Henry Hart
- Milner, Edith
- Milner, Fred
- Milner, R. C.
- Miolnir [ ]
- Mode, Rutherford
- Money, D. Inglis
- Montgomery, Mrs A.
- Moor, A. P.
- Moore, F. Frankfort
- Moore, Joseph
- Moran, Benjamin
- More, I. S.
- Morris, Lewis
- Muller, Hermann G.
- Muir, Adam Stuart
- Muirhead, James P.
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey
- Murdoch, John
- Murphy, P.
- Muspratt, James Sheridan
- Nainby, Mary Ann
- Nash, Charles
- Neill, William M.
- Nichol, J. P.
- Nichol, Jane I.
- Nichol, John
- Nightingale, Parthe
- Nixon, Maria L.
- Noel, Ernest
- Norton, Caroline
- Norton, Jane
- Norton, John Bruce
- Nottage, George S.
- Nuttall, T. H.
- Oates, Charlotte
- O'Mahony, Denis P. M.
- Ormerod, Thomas
- O'Ryan, Julia
- Osgood, J. N.
- Ouseley, W. C.
- Oxford Journal
- Palgrave, Francis Turner
- Parker, Henry T.
- Pasley, Ella
- Peel, Emily
- Pennell, H. Cholmondeley
- Pfeiffer, J. E.
- Pinder, North
- Pocock, C. A. B.
- Porter, Thomas
- Potter, Thomas B.
- Powell, George E. J.
- Preston, Benjamin
- Price, Bartholomew
- Prior, C. H.
- Procter, Adelaide A.
- Procter, Bryan Waller
- Quilter, Ellen
- Rae, William Fraser
- Ralston, William Ralston Shedden
- Rawes, H. A.
- Rawlins, James H.
- Reed, Charles
- Reed, Howard
- Reform club
- Reid, T. Wemyss
- Rhodes, Joshua
- Richards, Alfred Bates
- Richardson, Mary
- Riddle, Alfred
- Ritchie, Anna Cora Mowatt
- Ritchie, Archibald Tucker
- Rivington, A. John
- Roberts, Albert A.
- Roberts, Charles F.
- Robertson, A. C.
- Robinson, Charles
- Robinson, H. M.
- Robinson, J. R.
- Rodd, Handescombe
- Rogers, Charles
- Rogers, Louie L.
- Roslyn, Guy
- Royal Irish Academy
- Rule, Frederick
- Rusbridge, Alfred
- Ruskin, John
- Russell, Fanny
- Russell, Matthew
- Russell, N. Scott
- Russell, W. H.
- Sage, Edward
- Salts, Emma L.
- Sampson Low, Son, & Marston
- Sandbach, Henry R.
- Sandbach, Margaret
- Sandeman, Hugh
- Saunders, W. H.
- Scott, Arthur John
- Seabrooke, J. H.
- Selle, W. C.
- Sewall, Ellen Mary
- Sewell, J. E.
- Sharp, Irwin
- Shelton, John
- Shore, T. Teignmouth
- Simpson, H. F. M.
- Simpson, Mary
- Simpson, W. G.
- Skelton, John
- Skene, Alexander
- Skinner, J. E. Hilary
- Smirke, H. A.
- Smith, Catherine Payne
- Smith, D. C. Wharton
- Smith, E. Palmer
- Smith, John
- Smith, S. Annie
- Smith, William
- Smith, Elder & Co.
- Smithwick, Robert
- Smythe, Alfred E.
- Soleman, William
- Speed, J. G.
- Spencer, John Poyntz Spencer, 5th earl
- Spenser, Mary Comyn
- Spooner, W. A.
- Stanford, C. Villiers
- Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th earl of
- Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn
- Stanley, Augusta
- Stapleton, John
- Stewart, Mark J.
- Stockall, Harriett
- Stokes, Henry Sewall
- Stradbroke, countess of
- Strutt, John W.
- Sutton, Alfred J.
- Swanwick, Anna
- Symington, A. J.
- Synge, William Webb Follett
- Taunton, T. H.
- Taylor, Caroline (Longfellow)
- Taylor, Sir Henry
- Taylor, Henry
- Taylor, John
- Tebb, William
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st baron
- Tennyson, Emily, lady
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Thistlethwayte [Mrs ]
- Thompson, Henry
- Thompson, Jacob
- Thompson, Metford
- Thomson, Ada White
- Thornton, Sir Edward
- Thornton, L. M.
- Thynne, John C.
- Tilt, Charles
- Timmins, Samuel
- Trendell, Arthur J. R.
- Trowsdale, Thomas B.
- Trubner, N.
- Trumper, Josephine E.
- Tucker, Edward
- Tupper, Martin Farquhar
- Turland, Ephraim
- Turner, John Pemberton
- Twentyman, Elizabeth Ann
- Van De Weyer, G.
- Venn, William Osmonde
- Verney, F. P.
- Vince, Henry S.
- Vizetelly, Henry
- Waddington, S.
- Wadsworth, John
- Waley, S. W.
- Walford, Edward
- Walker, Charles
- Walker, J. A.
- Walker, John
- Walker, Samuel A., & Co.
- Walter, A. F.
- Walter, J.
- Walter, James
- Walter, John Francis
- Warne, Frederick
- Warren, Benjamin
- Watkins, Herbert
- Watkins, John
- Watson, Arthur G.
- Watson, Mary Yates
- Watson, Thomas
- Watts, George Frederick
- Waugh, Francis G.
- Webb, Helen R.
- Webster, James Claude
- Wedgwood, Fanny
- Weiss, Georgiana A.
- Weiss, Willoughby Hunter
- Weld, C. R.
- West, Edward
- West, Henry W.
- Westmacott, Arthur
- Whitaker, J.
- Whitaker, John Henry
- White, G. L.
- Whitworth, R. H.
- Whyte, Lydia C.
- Wickes, C.
- Wilberforce, Mabel
- Wilde, Jane Francesca (Elgee) lady
- Williamson, David R.
- Wingfield, John
- Winthrop, Frances Maria
- Wood, Isabel
- Wood, Marshall
- Woollett, Sidney
- Wright [Miss ]
- Wright, T. C.
- Wright, W. H. K.
- Yates, Edmund
- Yates, Frederick
- Yonge, Charlotte
Greece
- Botassi, D. W.
Hungary
- Molitor, A.
- Pulszky, Therese
- Remeny, Edward
India
- Dall, C. H. A.
- Grant, C.
- Hossein, Syud
- Krishna, A.
- Lock, E.
- Malabari, B. M.
Italy
- Adamoli, Luigi
- Albina, Giuseppe P.
- Alessandro, Pietro d'
- Annuvola, Antonino
- Arriotti, G. V.
- Bachi, Pietro
- Bertieri, C.
- Botta, Vincenzo
- Bourgeois, Luigi
- Bozzi, A.
- Bracciforti, Ferdinando
- Brunetta, Eugenio
- Caetano, Michel Angelo
- Caminoni, Filippo
- Casoni, Giovanni
- Cerqua, Augustus Edward
- Cesati, Vincenzo
- Cesnola, L. P. di
- Chizzola, C. A.
- Ciani, Luigi de
- Corsini, E.
- Dall'ongaro, F.
- Dalmedico, Angelo
- Dal Monte Casoni, G.
- De Luca, Ferdinando
- Demaria, Innocente
- Di Gubernati, Angelo
- Epifani, Louis
- Fabbrini, Alessando
- Fabbrini, Giuseppa
- Ferranti, M. A. de
- Finotti, Gustavo M.
- Fontana, G. B.
- Franchi, Gaetano
- Frattini, Caterino
- Gajani, Guglielmo
- Gallenga, A.
- Giuseppe, G.
- Greene, Maria Carlotta
- Incontri, Clementina
- Lambert, Etienne
- Lanza [Mrs Gaetano]
- Loniga, Emilio
- Loparto, Lucian
- Magni, Achille
- Mahon, Emilie
- Mariotti, L.
- Maroncelli, Piero
- Menasci, J.
- Micchini, Filippo
- Mignoty, Margaret Albana
- Minervini, Giulio
- Molajoni, Pio
- Monti, Luigi
- Nobile, A.
- Ongaro, Maria Dall'
- Orsini, C.
- Parini, Armida Kranichfeld
- Parma, Francesco de
- Peruzzi, Emilia
- Prati, G.
- Prosperi, Gherardo
- Redi, Emilia
- Rudersdorff, Erminia
- Salvini, Tommaso
- Sandon, Carlo A.
- Sebastiani, E. C.
- Simona, Giorgio
- Spada, Flamini & Cie
- Spandri, Giuseppe
- Spasiano, Camillo
- Trovanelli, Nazzareno
- Ufigli, Carlo
- Urbini, S.
- Valerio, G.
- Vannini, E.
- Wagner, Virginie
- Zendrini, Bernardino
- Zenone, Antonio
Netherlands
- Koenen, H. J.
- Merz, Catherina
- Meyboom, Margaret
- Oosterzee, Cornelie van
- Schaap, Cato
- Storm, Anna M. M.
- Van de Poll, Clara
Norway
- Appleton, J. J.
- Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
- Bull, Ole
- Knutsen, H. C.
- Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift Selskab
Poland
- Gosnynska, Molowa
- Gurowski, Adam
- Lewald, Felix T.
- Modjeska, Helena
- Soboleski, Paul
- Wisniowski, J. S.
Portugal
- Allen, W.
- Arriaga, Miguel Street d'
- Arriaza, Maria Amelia
- Doria, Franklin [NOT Portugal but Brazil]
- Edla, Elise, countess of
- Fernando, King of Portugal
- Galvao, Joao Luis
- Rodrigues, J. C. [NOT Portugal but Brazil]
Russia
- Arsenier, George d'
- Ouronssow, Kitty
- Ouronssow, May
- Ouronssow, Sophy
- Panin, Ivan
Spain
- Bannelos, M.
- Baralt, Luis A.
- Bracho, F.
- Corella, M. M.
- Cortes y Sesti, Jose
- Cubi y Soler, Mariano
- Cuyas, Arturo
- Genoa, Juan Clemento
- George, Anita
- Gonzalez, Florencia
- Guiteras, Antonio
- Gutierrez, Eusebio
- Haro Gad, Maria de
- Merle, Ernesto
- Mitre, Bartolome
- Moretto, Pedro de
- Padro, Gustavo
- Peralta, Manuel M.
- Perez Bonalde, Juan Antonio
- Pisani de Trapolli, Carmen
- Pombo, Rafael
- Puard, Guillermo
- Puento y Apezechia, Jermin de la
- Quintero, J. A.
- Rivera y Rio, Jose
- Rodriguez, Jose Ignacio
- Sales, Francis
- Santa Anna, A. L. de
- Sarmiento, D. F.
- Sellen, Francisco
- Spain. Real academia
- Vallejo, M. G.
- Vinageras, Nicolas
Sweden
- Borg, Selma
- Edgren, A. H.
- Enander, John A.
- Ericsson, Olof A.
- Falkenberg, Hans & Carl
- Fritzes, C. E.
- Gezen, Arthur von
- Liljegren, John G.
- Meurling, Kate Gore
- Nicander, Karl August
- Palm, Swante
- Schele de Vere, Maximilian
- Sodling, Carl E.
- Stackelberg, Baron Oscar
- Tegner, Esaias, bishop
Processing Information
When the letters to Longfellow were received, they were in three main groups: 1. Letters from 1821 to 1853, chronologically arranged in 25 volumes bound in three-quarters red leather, evidently made up by Longfellow or under his supervision. All volumes had been more or less broken by the extraction of various pieces, and some were little better than portfolios of separate letters. Some letters had been removed bodily, some leaving stubs or whole leaves. There was evidently no record kept of these extractions. A list was made of the contents of these volumes, in order, as received at Harvard, and in it notes were made regarding stubs and other evidence, together with charts of the saw-cuts made by the binder. These cuts vary from one volume to another and may be used in dating and to identify material believed once to have belonged in the papers. The list is preserved as bMS Am 1340.2 (6232). The bindings themselves, now empty, are preserved in three boxes as bMS Am 1340.2 (6230).
2. Letters from 1854 to 1882, chronologically arranged in a series of dust-proof file boxes. These, at least in part, perpetuated another of Longfellow's arrangements, for among the papers were found several labels in his and other hands cut from the wrappings of bundles made up by years. The series of labels is far from complete; the survivors are preserved as bMS Am 1340.2 (6231). Among the hands identified are those of Samuel Longfellow and Alice Mary Longfellow, who noted on them the fact that they had examined the contents. The correspondence for the year 1871 was not preserved, or more probably it was at some time inadvertently lost; the file-box for that year was empty when received and bore an appropriate notation. There is no record of the stage at which this loss occurred. Nevertheless a few letters from the year 1871 have survived, scattered through the collection.
3. Letters removed from the other two series because the writers were deemed especially important, or for other reasons. These were kept in separate boxes and cases as follows: Carlyle, Dickens, Emerson, G. W. Greene (2 boxes), Hawthorne, Holmes, Howells, Lowell, C. E. Norton, Poe, Charles Sumner (3 boxes), Tennyson, and Samuel Grey Ward (2 boxes). There were also boxes for Ticknor & Fields, letters from German correspondents with a folder of Spanish correspondents, letters from his children, letters from relatives, and lastly a small collection kept by Longfellow as "Curious Letters." The top of the cigar-box once containing these last and so inscribed by his hand is preserved in bMS Am 1340.2 (6231).
In almost every case various letters of the persons concerned had been overlooked and still remained in the other two groups. Groups 1 and 2, which evidently had once represented to some extent Longfellow's intentions with respect to arrangement, no longer did so and could not be reconstituted. Not only had most of the materials in Group 3 been extracted from them, but also over the course of time various other pieces had disappeared from the collections by various means, some escaping into the channels of the book trade, from which a few have been recovered by purchase or gift. There appears to be no way of determining what or how many pieces still are missing. Since there was no question of preserving the organic form of the correspondence, the entire mass of material has been rearranged.
In the first place, certain groups more significant for bulk than for content have been segregated and each placed in a chronological series: persons merely seeking Longfellow's autograph (2 boxes; bMS Am 1340.4); literary societies offering honorary memberships, often a thinly camouflaged attempt to secure an autograph (1 box; bMS Am 1340.5); attempts by lyceums and others to book him for a lecture or a reading, something that he always avoided if possible (1 box; bMS Am 1340.6); and persons, mostly unknown to him, writing to send birthday greetings, especially numerous towards the end of his life when his birthday was celebrated nationally by school children (2 boxes; bMS Am 1340.7). There are also a few literary manuscripts by authors other than Longfellow, and some letters from various persons to other addressees; these are grouped and listed as bMS Am 1340.3.
The removal of these groups leaves in 66 boxes what may be regarded as the significant portion of Longfellow's correspondence, containing letters from 6,228 identified writers. These are arranged and listed alphabetically. The letters of each writer are in turn arranged chronologically, with undated letters grouped at the end of the chronology, and the series for each writer is numbered in pencil in the lower left corner of each piece beginning at 1 for each person. Should the series in any case be found to be out of its true order, or should a reader be able to date an undated letter, this serial number should not be changed; instead, the corrected or new data should be recorded on the outside of the folder in question. In this way the numbers now assigned will serve as permanent references for the individual pieces, which is far more important than having the precise arrangement adjusted to match more detailed or more accurate information. In the index each person receives a single entry, under which is recorded the number of letters and their inclusive dates. The notation "n.d." following this indicates the presence of one or more undated letters. No. 6229 in this series, comprising the whole 66th box, contains 251 letters written over pseudonyms or by writers who have not been identified. These are arranged chronologically, and any identifications that can be supplied by readers will be welcomed.
There is an additional index of overseas and foreign-language correspondents, to make more readily accessible this most interesting side of Longfellow's correspondence.
W. H. Bond Curator of MSS., 10 March 1959
- Title
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, recipient. Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00355
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