LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph letter signed ("Henry W. Longfellow") to an unidentified recipient (a friend of publisher James T. Fields), declining an invitation. Cambridge, 21 January 1851. 4 pages, small 8vo, written on rectos and versos, some slight browning. "It would give me great pleasure to accept... but alas! in the Book of Fate for 1851, I fear there is no chapter for me, headed "a Visit to England."

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LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph letter signed ("Henry W. Longfellow") to an unidentified recipient (a friend of publisher James T. Fields), declining an invitation. Cambridge, 21 January 1851. 4 pages, small 8vo, written on rectos and versos, some slight browning. "It would give me great pleasure to accept... but alas! in the Book of Fate for 1851, I fear there is no chapter for me, headed "a Visit to England."