s of Schele de Vere, and remain,

Very faithfully Yours

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW{82}

P. S. I have not assigned any reasons for my resignation, thinking
it better to avoid a repetition of details, which I have already
explained to you.

[TO THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE.]

GENTLEMEN,--Having last Winter signified to you my intention of
resigning my Professorship at the close of the present College year,
I now beg leave to tender you my resignation more formally and
officially.

It is eighteen years since I entered upon the duties of this
Professorship. They have been to me pleasant and congenial; and I
hope I have discharged them to your satisfaction, and to the
advantage of the College in whose prosperity I shall always take the
deepest interest.

In dissolving a connection, which has lasted so long, and which has
been to me a source of so much pleasure and advantage, permit me to
express to you my grateful thanks for the confidence you have
reposed in me, and the many marks of kindness and consideration
which I have received at your hands.

With best wishes for the College and for yourselves, I have the
honor to be, Gentlemen,

Your Obedient Servant

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW

_Smith Professor of French and Spanish, and
Professor of Belles Lettres._{83}

CAMBRIDGE, August 23, 1854.

[TO PRESIDENT WALKER.]

NAHANT, Aug. 23, 1854.

MY DEAR SIR,--I inclose you the Letter of resignation we were
speaking of yesterday. I have made it short, as better suited to
College Records; and have said nothing of the regret, which I
naturally feel on leaving you, for it hardly seems to me that I am
leaving you; and little of my grateful acknowledgments; for these I
hope always to show, by remaining the faithful friend and ally of
the College.

I beg you to make my official farewells to the members of the
Faculty at their next meeting, and to assure them all and each of my
regard and friendship, and of my best wishes for them in all things.

With sentiments of highest esteem, I remain

Dear Sir,