LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph manuscript signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), n.p., 19 May 1868, one page, 4to, ink rather pale. A fair copy of two four-line stanzas of his well-known poem, the first stanza reading: "Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time...." -- WHITMAN, WALTER. Bold autograph signature ("Walt Whitman"), dated 3 August l884, one page, an oblong, 90 x 172mm. (3 1/2 x 6 3/4), the signature measuring 5 9/16 in. in length; together two items, each matted, framed and glazed. Unexamined out of frames. (2)

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LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph manuscript signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), n.p., 19 May 1868, one page, 4to, ink rather pale. A fair copy of two four-line stanzas of his well-known poem, the first stanza reading: "Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time...." -- WHITMAN, WALTER. Bold autograph signature ("Walt Whitman"), dated 3 August l884, one page, an oblong, 90 x 172mm. (3 1/2 x 6 3/4), the signature measuring 5 9/16 in. in length; together two items, each matted, framed and glazed. Unexamined out of frames. (2)