[Rarebooks] FS: Superb Longfellow Letter to a Little Boy Named after his Son

[Charles Agvent]

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS): Charming 
Missive to a Young Boy Named Charlie. Cambridge, 1867. Superb 4-page 
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" on a 9" x 7" sheet of 
paper, folded once, to "My Dear Charlie," a young boy as obvious by the 
content. In full: "I have been so long in answering your letter, that no 
doubt you begin to think that I am not going to answer it at all. But 
you see, I am; and my letter will be longer than yours. It comes very 
naturally to me to begin with 'My Dear Charlie,' because I have a boy 
named Charlie. He was in the war; and was shot through the body; but has 
got well again, and is now in St. Petersburg; and whenever I write to 
him I begin my letters with 'My Dear Charlie,' just as I do this. I 
suppose you have a sled; and I wonder of what color it is, and what its 
name is. I used to have one named the 'Vanguard'; but that was a good 
while ago, and I do not know what has become of it. And what do you 
think of this great snow? You may live to be an old man without seeing 
the like again. It will be good fun for you to make snow houses and 
forts. I hope you have a wooden shovel, for I really don't know what a 
boy can do without a wooden shovel in winter. And now, my Dear Charlie, 
good bye; and remember that all Charlies must be good boys. That will 
make everything pleasant and comfortable. Your friend, Henry W. 
Longfellow." With the envelope addressed by Longfellow to Edward B. 
Haven, a friend of his son Charlie and the father of the young boy named 
Charlie, likely named after his friend. Haven and Charles Longfellow 
shared a home in Japan in 1872. Normal folds from mailing; ink a bit 
light. Near Fine. (#021390)        $2,000

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