ALS signed “Henry W. Longfellow,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 7, Cambridge, January 6, 1857. Letter to a gentleman. In part: “If anything could persuade me to deliver a Poem in public, it would be your letter and the occasion which produced it. But the more I think about it, the greater grows the impossibility; and all bring me back to the same point. There are certain matters in which instincts are better than reasons; and this is one of them…I know—I feel, that I cannot do this thing as it ought to be done. I never could do such things well—and now least of all.” Intersecting folds and scattered foxing, otherwise fine condition. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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