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The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1814-1843

The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1814-1843

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stephen Longfellow/ Portland/Me POSTMARK: CAMBRIDGE MS. OCT 2 1. Stephen Longfellow had for many years been subject to epileptic seizures. On September 22 he wrote: "I have had several attacks of late, and have just recovered ...
Hyperion: A Romance

Hyperion: A Romance

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Romance Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. which he annually received as Mayor on PipersDoomsday, representing a kind of middle personage between Alcinous and Laertes. Thus, O Genius! are thy foot-prints hallowed ; and the star shines ...
A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Companion

A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Companion

Robert L. Gale

He was a blacksmith in Newbury, married Abigail Tompson of Newbury, and with her had five sons, including Stephen Longfellow (1723-90),* and four daughters. Longfellow commemorates him in "The Village Blacksmith." Bibliography: S.
Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200

Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200

Christoph Irmscher

3 Indeed, Stephen Longfellow's letters reveal a man intent on dispensing useful advice to his children, in ponderous prose weighed down by his good intentions. Under the polished surface, however, Stephen was unhappy, dissatisfied with ...
The Dana Family in America

The Dana Family in America

Elizabeth Ellery Dana

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana carried on the work, which was unfin- ished at the time of the compiler's death. It was completed by the Dana Genealogical Committee and edited for publication by Thomas de Valcourt.
THE LETTERS OF Henry Wadsworth Longellow

THE LETTERS OF Henry Wadsworth Longellow

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Joseph Swain Lovering (1809-1894) and William Warren Tucker (1817-1885) were Boston merchants and Beacon Street neighbors. For the Phillips' cottage, see I332-3- 17. The Saturday Club had been formed the previous year. Longfellow ...
The Reprint Bulletin

The Reprint Bulletin

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1927-1938. (Franklin.) XIII, 5/010-020 Livingston, Luther S. A bibliography of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Compiled largely from the Collection of Jacob Chester Chamberlain. 1908. ( Franklin.) ...
William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi ...

William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi ...

Benjamin E. Wise

Douglas Shand-Tucci has documented the progression of Harvard men from Walt Whitman, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Owen Wister to James Mill Pierce, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, and Arthur Kingsley Porter, among others, who ...
12 Questions about "Paul Revere's Ride"

12 Questions about "Paul Revere's Ride"

Jamie Kallio

Tells the story behind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem about the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
The courtship of Miles Standish, and other poems

The courtship of Miles Standish, and other poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... that terrible winter, Letters written by Alden, and full of the name of Priscilla, Full of the name and the fame of the Puritan maiden Priscilla ! II. LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. Nothing was heard in the room THE COURTSHIP OF JULES STANDISH.
Massachusetts Biographical Dictionary

Massachusetts Biographical Dictionary

Caryn Hannan

(1902-1985) – Senator and diplomat LONG, JOHN DAVIS – (1838-1915) – Governor of Massachusetts LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH – (1807- 1882) – Poet LOWELL, AMYLAWRENCE – (1874-1925) – Poet and critic LOWELL, ...
Poems

Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

THE COURTSHIP OF JULES STANDISH. PAGB L Miles Standish 389 II. Love and Friendship 394 III. The Lover's Errand 400 IV. John Alden 409 V. The Sailing of the May Flower 417 VI. Priscilla 425 VII. The March of Miles Standish 431 VIII.
The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry

The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry

Richard Marius

A comprehensive volume explores the Civil War in a collection of classic and period pieces by such writers as Herman Melville, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, John Updike, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ...
The Dana Saga: Three Centuries of the Dana Family in Cambridge

The Dana Saga: Three Centuries of the Dana Family in Cambridge

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana

For the details of these various grants of land to Richard Dana, see Elizabeth Ellery Dana, The Dana Family in America, Cambridge, 1942, pp. 41-42. "The Records of the Town of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, 1901, pp. 135, 151 ...
Textiles in New England II: Four Centuries of Material Life /

Textiles in New England II: Four Centuries of Material Life /

Peter Benes

Just as Alice Longfellow preserved a decorative arts heritage at her family home, the richness of the archives at the Longfellow National Historic Site is largely due to the work of Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Edith Longfellow's sister-in- law.
History of Gorham

History of Gorham

K.B. Lewis

Stephen Longfellow died May 28,' 1824. Mrs. Patience Longfellow died Aug. 12, 1830. ' (3) Stephen Longfellow, son of Hon. Stephen, entered Harvard College at the age of eighteen, and graduated in the class of 1798. He was admitted to the ...
The Quiet Radical: The Biography of Samuel Longfellow

The Quiet Radical: The Biography of Samuel Longfellow

Joseph C. Abdo

2 Letter Samuel Longfellow to Stephen Longfellow (father), June 22, 1839, SLP, LNHS. 3 Ibid., April 9, 1839, SLP, LNHS. 4 Ibid. 5 Longfellow, Samuel. Journal, October 13, 1839 to April 26, 1843, Oct. 17, 1839. 6 Ibid., October 19, 1839. ' May  ...
Letter from Stephen Longfellow to Daniel Appleton White

Letter from Stephen Longfellow to Daniel Appleton White

Stephen Longfellow

Stephen Longfellow wrote this letter in Portland, Maine on May 29, 1799; it was sent to his friend, Daniel Appleton White, in Medford, Massachusetts.
Reconsidering Longfellow

Reconsidering Longfellow

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Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature.
A History of the Town of Gorham, Maine

A History of the Town of Gorham, Maine

Josiah Pierce

1781 — Edmund Phinney, William Gorham, Stephen Longfellow, Jr. 1782 — Edmund Phinney, Stephen Longfellow, Jr., William McLellan. 1783— James Phinney, Prince Davis, William McLellan. 1784 — James Phinney, Stephen Longfellow, ...
Up, Up and Away

Up, Up and Away

Ginger Wadsworth

Ginger Wadsworth and Patricia J. Wynne chronicle the real-life drama of one spider as she eats, grows, spins a dragline of silk, and soars up, up, and away to find a home of her own.

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