A Guide to the Samuel Longfellow Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 9275-b
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Samuel Longfellow Collection, Accession 9275-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Purchase 1962 Nov 29
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Longfellow
- [Thomas Potts] James
Item Listing
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Samuel Longfellow to "Dear Sir"1881 Mar 18ALS, 1 p.
["The hymn of which you speak is mine . . . first published in 'Hymns of the Spirit' (1864)"; adds that this was a collection by Rev. Samuel Johnson and himself.]
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Samuel Longfellow to Mrs. [Thomas Potts] James1888 Oct 8ALS, 3 p.
[Explains that he has not received letters or photographs sent by correspondent because of address mix-up; adds that he and his traveling companion have seen some fine English cathedrals and "spent a few days in Yorkshire where the ancestral Longfellow s lived and found their names in old church registers."]