[LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS.] LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. ALS ("Henry W. Longfellow"), to Benson J. Lossing, 17 June 1850. 3pp., 8vo, tipped, address panel preserved. [With:] Drawing of Longfellow's Cambridge house. Longfellow encloses for the famous American historian a sketch of "the old house in Cambridge where the Baroness of Riedesel resided" during the Revolutionary War. "In 'The Sea-Side and the Fireside' I have a little poem describing it, called 'The open Window' but with no historic allusions." He reports that "Mr. [Jared] Sparks tells me the handwriting" on one of the north windows of the house "is undoubtedly the Baron's," referring to Hessian General, Baron Friedrich Riedesel. -- LONGFELLOW. Autograph verses signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), a fair copy of a key moment in the extended poem "Hiawatha,": the meeting of Hiawatha and Minnehaha, comprising 31 lines, N.p., June 1867. 3pp., large 4to, boldly penned on a bifolium of fine, laid paper, docketed on verso by the poet.. --THACKERAY, William Makepeace. ALS ("W. M. Thackeray"), to John E. Millais, Queens Hotel, Glasgow, 3 March 1857. 1p., 8vo, light age-toning, two small chips at top edge of blank integral leaf. A WITTY LETTER TO AN ARTIST COLLEAGUE AT CORNHILL MAGAZINE. "I got the news at Edinburgh yesterday that there is to be no lecture at Perth," he writes, "my manager not having been able to make arrangements there. So I shall lose the pleasure I had promised myself of seeing you and Mrs Millais, and the pictures on the easel, and the little miniature Millais by Millais which I hope and am sure is a charming little work by that painter...." Millais was a prominent member of the Pre-Raphaelite school. -- THACKERAY. Pencil sketch of Thackeray, signed ("W. M. Thackeray, 14 January 1859"). 11 1/8 x 8¼in., chipped along edges, tipped. -- SHAW, George Bernard. ALS ("G. Bernard Shaw") to unidentified, London, 24 Sep. 1919. 1p., 8vo, Adelphi Terrace stationery, tipped, tape repairs at creases and on verso, pencil notations, in another hand, cover the verso. SHAW'S CHARACTERISTICALLY ACID WIT is on display in this letter to an impoverished man named Shaw: "I cannot adopt you: my family relationships already cost me more than I can conveniently afford. I really cannot take on another destitute Shaw. You must go into the workhouse after a final spree. The means for which I enclose." -- SHAW. Cabinet card photograph inscribed and signed ("G. Bernard Shaw"), n.d. 6¼ x 3¾in., laid down on another sheet. Inscribed on the mount: "I cannot believe that nobody knows my first name. I spend half my life trying to suppress it. It is quite superfluous." Together 6 items. (6)