[Rarebooks] FS: Letter SIGNED by Longfellow shortly before his death, likely to Oliver W. Holmes

[Charles Agvent]

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. LETTER SIGNED. Cambridge, 2 November 1881. 
A 1-1/4-page LETTER SIGNED on both sides of a 4" x 7" sheet of paper to 
"Dear Mr. Holmes" [likely Oliver Wendell Holmes]. In full: "I should be 
delighted to see Mr. & Mrs. Collier & yourself, on Monday, as you 
proposed, but unfortunately, I am confined to my room by indisposition & 
forbidden by my physician to see any one. Please express to Mr. & Mrs. 
Collier my extreme regret at losing the pleasure of their visit. The 
letter is written in a secretarial hand but is SIGNED by Longfellow who 
would die the following March. Normal folds from mailing. Fine. 
(#017714) $250.00

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