Research Catalog

Title

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow collection of papers, 1826-1901 bulk (1833-1882)

Author

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873.
• Appleton, William S. (William Sumner), 1840-1903.
• Cleveland, Eliza Callahan.
• Cleveland, Henry R. (Henry Russell), 1808-1843.
• Cleveland, Sarah Perkins, 1818-1893.
• Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898.
• Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862.
• Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881.
• Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 1810-1876.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
• Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
• Longfellow, Anne Sophia.
• Longfellow, Samuel, 1819-1892.
• Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892.
• Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903.
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
• Synge, W. W. Follett (William Webb Follett), 1826-1891.
• Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878.
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
• Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.

Description

208 items.

Subjects

• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 > Portraits
• Correspondence

Genre/Form

Correspondence.

Biography (note)

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet, novelist, essayist, and translator.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

• This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. Previous owners include , Tristram Coffin, [--?] Fayerweather, Frank Fletcher, John Gribbel, Edmund C. Stedman, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg, W. T. H. Howe, and Owen D. Young.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Longfellow

OCLC

NYPW04-A190

Author

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.

Title

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow collection of papers, 1826-1901 bulk (1833-1882)

Summary

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, a journal entry for March 2, 1840, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include poems and portions of poems, essays, and notes for works by the author, as well as poems relating to the author by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Richard Henry Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

The correspondence consists of letters from the author, dating from 1826 to 1882, to William S. Appleton, Sarah Perkins Cleveland, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, James R. Osgood, William W. F. Synge, R. S. Voorhis, Walt Whitman, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from [1856?] to 1901, between various correspondents, including Eliza Callahan Cleveland, James T. Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Anne Sophia Longfellow, Samuel Longfellow, and others. There are letters to Longfellow from Louis Agassiz, Henry Russell Cleveland, Cornelius Conway Felton, Bayard Taylor, and John Greenleaf Whittier, dating from 1836 to1873.

Biography

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet, novelist, essayist, and translator.

Indexes

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Local Note

Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

Connect to:

Finding Aid

Added Author

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873.

Appleton, William S. (William Sumner), 1840-1903.

Cleveland, Eliza Callahan.

Cleveland, Henry R. (Henry Russell), 1808-1843.

Cleveland, Sarah Perkins, 1818-1893.

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898.

Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862.

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881.

Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 1810-1876.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

Longfellow, Anne Sophia.

Longfellow, Samuel, 1819-1892.

Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892.

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Synge, W. W. Follett (William Webb Follett), 1826-1891.

Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.

Berg, Albert Ashton, 1872-1950. Former owner

Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938. Former owner

Coffin, Tristram, 1838?-1924. Former owner

Fletcher, Frank, 1870-1954. Former owner

Gribbel, John, 1858-1936. Former owner

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908. Former owner

Young, Owen D., 1874- Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Longfellow