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the day of Emerson's funeral as the finest flower in the poet's wreath.
Longfellow was one of the kindest friends that the Hungarian exiles found when they came to Boston in 1852.
Longfellow helped Kossuth, subscribed to Kalapka's riding-school, and entertained a number of them at his house.
Afterwards, when one of the exiles set up a business in Hungarian wines, Longfellow made a large purchase of him, which he spoke of twenty years later with much satisfaction.
He liked Tokay, and also the white wine of Capri, which he regretted could not be obtained in America.
Those who supposed that Longfellow was easily imposed upon made a great mistake.
He had the reputation among his publishers of understanding business affairs better than any author in New England; but he was almost too kind-hearted.
Somewhere about 1859 a photographer made an excellent picture of his daughters-indeed, it was a charming group — and the man begged Mr. Longfellow for permission to sell copies of it as it would be of great advantage to him. Longfellow complied and the consequence was that in 1860 one could hardly open a photograph album anywhere without finding Longfellow's daughters in it. Then a vulgar story originated that the youngest daughter had only one arm, because her left
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