ALS signed “Henry W. Longfellow,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 7, January 21, 1851. Poetic handwritten letter declining an invitation to England, in part: "Accept my warmest thanks for your kind, and more than kind, invitation. It would give me very great pleasure to accept it, and to be your guest at Blackheath Park; but alas! in the Book of Fate for 1851, I fear there is no chapter for me, headed 'A Visit to England.' Thought of it, have I very often; spoke of it, not seldom; and sometimes it has shaped itself into a cloudy plan, assuming various forms, and finally dissolving and fading away utterly. At some future time it will come again, and then I hope and believe appear in a palpable and possible shape, so that I can lay hold of it." In very good to fine condition, with some light toning and staining.
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