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Henry W. Longfellow Autograph Letter Signed

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Henry W. Longfellow Autograph Letter Signed
<B>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Autograph Letter Signed</B></I> "<I>Henry W. Longfellow</B></I>". 2.5 pages, 4.5" x 7", foldover lettersheet, Cambridge, June 21, 1872. Longfellow thanks an unknown correspondent for "<I>...your kind remembrance, and for the Caricatures, which I am sorry to say, are very poor and unpleasant, and without even artistic merit. One does not see what right they have to exist...</B></I>" He then mentions the hot weather and says "<I>I congratulate you upon being among the groves and hills of Milton, which from your description of it must be the 'Paradise Regained'...</B></I>" Condition is good with weak folds, not affecting signature; very legible and containing an interesting comparison of Milton's work to the landscape around the recipient's home. <I>From the Henry E. Luhrs Collection.</B></I>