Autograph Letter Signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), 4 pp, 8vo (conjoining leaves), n.p., 1876, to a female correspondent, some creasing and toning to pages, housed in double-sided frame. Longfellow offers a somber reply to his correspondent's letter: "I am much obliged to you for your note and yet I confess it made me a little sad. I no longer like anniversaries. These milestones on our road are ... like tomb stones, and many of them are tomb-stones, so I often have to shut my eyes and pass by in silence." After discussing a recent portrait of an acquaintance, he closes, "Goethe says that we ought, if possible, every day to see one good picture; read one good poem, and hear one good piece of music. Two of these I can easily accomplish, and sometimes all three."
Autograph Letter Signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), 4 pp, 8vo (conjoining leaves), n.p., 1876, to a female correspondent, some creasing and toning to pages, housed in double-sided frame. Longfellow offers a somber reply to his correspondent's letter: "I am much obliged to you for your note and yet I confess it made me a little sad. I no longer like anniversaries. These milestones on our road are ... like tomb stones, and many of them are tomb-stones, so I often have to shut my eyes and pass by in silence." After discussing a recent portrait of an acquaintance, he closes, "Goethe says that we ought, if possible, every day to see one good picture; read one good poem, and hear one good piece of music. Two of these I can easily accomplish, and sometimes all three."
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