Sold – Longfellow Finds Italy a Delight

"I esteem it a great compliment that you should care enough for my autograph to send so far for it.".

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Longfellow had a love affair with Italy. He traveled there, translated Italian authors into English (including Dante), and was offered the cross of San Lazzaro (the Italian literary decoration) by the King of Italy. Thus he was pleased to receive good wishes and a request from an Italian women.

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Sold – Longfellow Finds Italy a Delight

"I esteem it a great compliment that you should care enough for my autograph to send so far for it.".

Longfellow had a love affair with Italy. He traveled there, translated Italian authors into English (including Dante), and was offered the cross of San Lazzaro (the Italian literary decoration) by the King of Italy. Thus he was pleased to receive good wishes and a request from an Italian women.

Autograph Letter Signed, Cambridge, February 5, 1876. “It gives me sincere pleasure to comply with your request. In fact I esteem it a great compliment that you should care enough for my autograph to send so far for it. Instead of you thanking me, I must thank you for your kind expression of sympathy and good will. With this I take the liberty of sending you two poems on Italian subjects [not present], which perhaps may interest you, as expressing my delight in Italy.”

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