Autograph letter signed Henry W. Longfellow , to the English novelist Fanny Aikin Kortright, mentioning dinner with Cruikshank and others at Dickens' place

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Bifolium. 3 pp. 8vo. Minor dustsoiling. Not in Hilen, The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Item #315675 A terrific Longfellow letter. In part: It gives me very great pleasure to sign the paper that has been sent me. But as I am not a British subject, I think Lord Beaconsfield Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli will smile when he reads my name. No matter if he does, provided he smiles on the

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