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The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1814-1843
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStephen 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
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA 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 ...
Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200
Christoph Irmscher3 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 ...
A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Companion
Robert L. GaleHe 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.
The Dana Family in America
Elizabeth Ellery DanaHenry 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
PreviewJoseph 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
More editions1927-1938. (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 ...
Benjamin E. WiseDouglas 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"
Jamie KallioTells the story behind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem about the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
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
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
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTHE 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
Richard MariusA 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
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow DanaFor 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 /
Peter BenesJust 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
K.B. LewisStephen 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
Joseph C. Abdo2 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
Stephen LongfellowStephen 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
PreviewReconsidering 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
Josiah Pierce1781 — 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
Ginger WadsworthGinger 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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