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Title: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Release Date: August 11, 2010 [EBook #33402]

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American Men of Letters

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

BY
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1902

COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published October, 1902_

_Of this edition Three Hundred Copies have been printed and bound
entirely uncut with paper label_

PREFACE

A life of Longfellow has been from the beginning included in the plan of
the "American Men of Letters" series, but it has been delayed through a
variety of causes. Like all memoirs of this poet, it must rest partly on
the material amply furnished by the "Life" so admirably prepared by his
brother sixteen years ago, yet it may be well to explain that the
present volume will be found marked by three especial characteristics of
its own. First, much additional material is here drawn from the
manuscript correspondence of the first Mrs. Longfellow, received from
her family and