LONGFELLOW HENRY WADSWORTH Autograph Letter Signed Henry W L

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LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph Letter Signed, "Henry W. Longfellow," to Edward Everett Hale ("Dear Mr. Hale"), declining to attend a reception due to poor health, and noting that he has arranged for Fields to read a ballad in his absence. 3 pages, 12mo, written on a folded sheet. With the original envelope, addressed in holograph to "Rev'd E.E. Hale / 39 Highland St. / Roxbury, / Boston." Cambridge, 14 March 1877

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On October 13, 1877, the Cambridge Chronicle announced a reception to be held the following Friday at Union Hall in Cambridge. At the event, entitled "Madam Norton's Reception," the sister of Edward Everett Hale, Susan Hale, was to impersonate the wife of 17th-century Boston pastor John Norton, who donated the land upon which the Old South Meeting House still stands. The reception was held to raise money for the Old South Fund, organized to restore the Old South Church, which was nearly destroyed by the Great Boston Fire of 1872.