[AMERICAN AUTHORS]. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph manuscript verse signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), Cambridge, Mass., 23 April 1880, 1 page, oblong 4to, neatly matted with portrait and framed, "The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flights But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night" -- GREELEY, HORACE. Autograph letter signed to S, Wilkeson, Bureau Chief in Washington, D.C.; New York, 20 December 1862, 3 pages, 8vo, unusually interesting letter rebuking Wilkeson for editorializing in his dispatches on Civil War stories: "...I have tried to warn you to keep out of controversies, and to leave comments to this end of the wire...A statement, to be effective, must have no manifest animus..." -- RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB. Autograph manuscript poem "To the Clover Club," with an ink sketch beneath, Indianapolis, 1888, 1 page, 8vo, titled at head, neatly matted and framed with a portrait and a clipped greeting with signature, "And so I love clover...And wherever it blossoms, oh, there let me bow..." the drawing showing a farm scene; apparently unpublished -- WALLACE, LEWIS ("Lew"), General, novelist. Autograph letter signed, Covington, 22 October 1852, 1 page, 4to, several small holes, good letter: "All the world down this way is Democratic. Whigs all beaten down..." -- WALLACE. Autograph letter signed to Harper & Bros, Crawfordsville, Ind., 14 October 1887, 1 page, 8vo, the author of Ben-Hur sends his publisher "the page proposed for The Boyhood of Christ..." Together 5 items. (5)