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AMERICAN LITERATURE]. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph letter signed to Ferdinand Freiligrath, Cambridge, 11 January 1856, 4 pages, 8vo . Fine letter regarding the translation of "Hiawatha" into Finnish and giving insight on the poem: "All the Indian words are Ojibway, except...Minnehaha...Hiawatha is Iroquois. I chose it for sake of euphony. It means 'the wise seer or Prophet'--Hiawatha the Wise..." -- HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Autograph letter signed, Boston, 12 December 1855, 1 page, 8vo , accepting an invitation to read his poem "The Heart's own Secret" -- ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY, Author and editor . Autograph letter signed to Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin, Boston, 16 August 1887, 1 page, 8vo , accepting an article for the Atlantic Monthly provided the author sends "a briefer and more taking title" -- ALDRICH. Autograph letter signed to [Paul Hamilton], Ponkapog, 27 December 1877, 4 pages, 8vo , on John Greenleaf Whittier, "I recognize the bravery and fire in his political lyrics; but I class them among his least poetical works...." -- MOORE, CLEMENT CLARKE, Author of 'Twas the night before Christmas . Autograph letter signed to Rev. A.J.H. Nichols, New York, 26 March 1861, 1 page, 8vo , regarding sermons and letters sent to his father by a Bishop Provost -- BARLOW, JOEL, Poet and diplomat . Autograph letter signed to Samuel Miles Hopkins, Paris 25 October 1798, 3 pages, 4to , regarding the sale of goods in the hands of the recipient, particularly concerned about an Encyclopedia -- MORSE, JEDIDIAH, Clergyman . Autograph letter signed to W.W. Woodward, Charlestown, 12 January 1807, 1 page, 4to , contacting the Philadelphia printer regarding Thomas Scott's Commentary on the Bible and his own Compendious History of New England -- EVERETT, EDWARD, Clergyman, President of Harvard University . Printed document signed, Cambridge, 4 July 1848, 1 page, 4to , a receipt for books for Harvard. Together 8 items . (8)