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Correspondence of Stephen Longfellow including two letters from John Harris Hall, inventor of the recoiless rifle; letters from Asa Clapp, Simon Greenleaf, Mark L. Hill, and William P. Preble, concerning legal and political affairs. Includes miscellaneous bills, receipts, and three calling cards of son Stephen Longfellow (1805-1850). Other persons represented include A.W. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Samuel Freeman.
Letter, 1841 Jan. 11, from S. Longfellow & Son, Portland, Maine, addressed to "Dear Sir." Letter requests payment for work charged against Jonah Little, to be paid without delay.
In the first biography of Longfellow in almost fifty years, Charles C. Calhoun seeks to solve a mystery: Why has one of America's most famous writers fallen into oblivion? His answer to this question takes us through a life story that reads like a Victorian family saga and reveals the man who introduced Americans to the literatures of other countries while creating a gallery of American icons - among them Paul Revere, John and Priscilla Alden, Miles Standish, the Village Blacksmith, Hiawatha, and Evangeline.
Stephen Longfellow wrote this letter in Portland, Maine on May 29, 1799; it was sent to his friend, Daniel Appleton White, in Medford, Massachusetts. In the letter, Longfellow describes the Election Day festivities among the "plebeans" in Portland, which he apparently found both amusing and upsetting. He compares the horses pulling their sleds to Don Quixote's horse, Rocinante. He also writes about mutual friends, including John Henry Tudor and Jabez Kimball, and bemoans the behavior of the current members of Phi Beta Kappa among the Harvard College undergraduates, whom he insists have sunk the society below its former "exalted station."
A biography of the popular poet by a distinguished modern critic whose assessment reminds the reader that poets popular in their own time are often unjustly ignored in later eras.
Stephen Longfellow wrote this letter to his friend Jabez Kimball on December 10, 1797. The letter was addressed to Kimball in London-Derry, where he was studying law. The letter is lighthearted, and Longfellow recounts various happenings at Harvard since Kimball's graduation the year before. Longfellow informs him of developments in Phi Beta Kappa, the Hasty Pudding Club, and his "attention to the ladies."