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Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
scription of Sacobezon, their chief. After twenty-five years he wrote in his diary (June 22, 1854), I have at length hit upon a plan for a poem on the American Indians which seems to be the right one and the only. It is to weave together their beautiful traditions into a whole. I have hit upon a measure, too, which I think the right one and the only one for the purpose. He had to draw for this delineation not merely upon the Indians seen in books, but on those he had himself observed in Maine, the Sacs and Foxes he had watched on Boston Common, and an Ojibway chief whom he had entertained at his house. As for the poetic measure, a suitable one had just been suggested to him by the Finnish epic of Kalevala, which he had been reading; and he had been delighted by its appropriateness to the stage character to be dealt with and the type of legend to be treated. Hiawatha was begun on June 25, 1854, and published on November 10 of that year. He enjoyed the work thoroughly, but it ev
Nahant (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 18
vantage, 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.Harvard College Papers [Ms.], 2d ser. XXI. 249. 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
Schele Vere (search for this): chapter 18
onnection with the College, I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your Obt. Servt. Henry W. Longfellow.Harvard College Papers [Ms.], 2d ser. XX. 345. To the President and Corporation of Harvard University. [to President Walker.] Cambridge, Feb. 16, 1854. my dear Sir,—I inclose you my note to the Corporation. Will you be kind enough to look at it, before handing it to them; for if it is not in proper form and phrase, I will write it over again. I also inclose the letters of Schele de Vere, and remain, Very faithfully Yours Henry W. LongfellowIb. 347. 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. I
James Walker (search for this): chapter 18
nd hitherto unpublished, but preserved in the Harvard College archives. Cambridge, February 16, 1854. Gentlemen,—In pursuance of conversations held with Dr. Walker, the subject of which he has already communicated to you,—I now beg leave to tender you my resignation of the Smith Professorship of the French and Spanish Langualemen, Your Obt. Servt. Henry W. Longfellow.Harvard College Papers [Ms.], 2d ser. XX. 345. To the President and Corporation of Harvard University. [to President Walker.] Cambridge, Feb. 16, 1854. my dear Sir,—I inclose you my note to the Corporation. Will you be kind enough to look at it, before handing it to them; forow, Smith Professor of French and Spanish, and Professor of Belles Lettres.Harvard College Papers [Ms.], 2d ser. XXI. 249. 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
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