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August 23rd, 1854 AD (search for this): chapter 18
e 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, whichAug. 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, Yours faithfully
1853 AD (search for this): chapter 18
Chapter 17: resignation of Professorship—to death of Mrs. Longfellow On the last day of 1853, Longfellow wrote in his diary, How barren of all poetic production and even prose production this last year has been! For 1853 I have absolutely nothing to show. Really there has been nothing but the college work. The family absorbs half the time, and letters and visits take out a huge cantle. Yet four days later he wrote, January 4, 1854, Another day absorbed in the college. But why complain1853 I have absolutely nothing to show. Really there has been nothing but the college work. The family absorbs half the time, and letters and visits take out a huge cantle. Yet four days later he wrote, January 4, 1854, Another day absorbed in the college. But why complain? These golden days are driven like nails into the fabric. Who knows but they help it to hold fast and firm? On February 22, he writes, You are not misinformed about my leaving the professorship. I am pawing to get free. On his birthday, February 27, he writes, in the joy of approaching freedom, I am curious to know what poetic victories, if any, will be won this year. On April 19 he writes, At eleven o'clock in No. 6 University Hall, I delivered my last lecture—the last I shall ever delive
February 22nd (search for this): chapter 18
is diary, How barren of all poetic production and even prose production this last year has been! For 1853 I have absolutely nothing to show. Really there has been nothing but the college work. The family absorbs half the time, and letters and visits take out a huge cantle. Yet four days later he wrote, January 4, 1854, Another day absorbed in the college. But why complain? These golden days are driven like nails into the fabric. Who knows but they help it to hold fast and firm? On February 22, he writes, You are not misinformed about my leaving the professorship. I am pawing to get free. On his birthday, February 27, he writes, in the joy of approaching freedom, I am curious to know what poetic victories, if any, will be won this year. On April 19 he writes, At eleven o'clock in No. 6 University Hall, I delivered my last lecture—the last I shall ever deliver, here or anywhere. Life, II. 262, 263, 265, 266, 268. The following are the letters explaining this, and hitherto un
1856 AD (search for this): chapter 18
to the tribe by some of the children and grandchildren of the poet. This posthumous tribute to a work of genius is in itself so picturesque and interesting and has been so well described by Miss Alice Longfellow, who was present, that I have obtained her consent to reprint it in the Appendix to this volume. Longfellow's next poem reverted to hexameters once more, inasmuch as Evangeline had thoroughly outlived the early criticisms inspired by this meter. The theme had crossed his mind in 1856, and he had begun to treat it in dramatic form and verse, under the name it now bears; but after a year's delay he tried it again under the name of Priscilla, taking the name, possibly, from an attractive English Quakeress, Priscilla Green, whose sweet voice had charmed him in a public meeting, breaking now and then, as he says, into a kind of rhythmic charm in which the voice seemed floating up and down on wings. It has been thought that he transferred in some degree the personality of this
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