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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 print view role Collector dates 1807-1882 city Cambridge state MA other cities Portland, ME; Brunswick, ME; sex M historical notes Collector Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a commanding figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America. Born in Portland, Maine, in 1807, he became a national literary figure by the 1850s, and a world- famous personality by the time of his death in 1882. He was a traveler, a linguist, and a romantic who identified with the great traditions of European literature and thought. At the same time, he was rooted in American life and history, which charged his imagination with untried themes and made him ambitious for success. He married Frances ("Fanny") Appleton in 1843, her father bought Craigie House in Cambridge for them as a wedding present, Longfellow having previously rented rooms in the house. His first wife, former Miss Mary Storer Potter of Portland, died of a complicated miscarriage (ca. 1835). decades of activity 1840-1850 1850-1860 1860-1870 1870-1880 website http://www.longfellowfriends.org; www.hwlongfellow.org updated 10/31/2024 13:33:18 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Longfellow National Historic Site Archives Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Family Papers, 1768-1972 (Bulk dates: 1825-1950) see details... Longfellow National Historic Site Archives Longfellow Family Photograph Collection, 1845-1972. see details... Longfellow National Historic Site Archives Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881-1950) Papers, 1744-1971. see details... Longfellow National Historic Site Archives Wadsworth-Longfellow Family Papers, 1610-1971. see details... Bowdoin College, Library George J. Mitchell, Special Collections & Archives Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection, 1821-1995 (bulk 1821-1909). see details... Houghton Library Harvard Yard, Harvard University Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Papers, 1819-1928 (bMS Am 1340) see details... Houghton Library Harvard Yard, Harvard University Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive) 1820-1888 (bulk). (MS Am 1340.2-1340.7) see details... Maine Historical Society 489 Congress Street Wadsworth-Longfellow family archives,1848-1907. see details... Maine Historical Society 489 Congress Street Wadsworth-Longfellow family papers, [between 1762 and 1921]. see details... Maine Historical Society 489 Congress Street Wadsworth Longfellow families research collection, 1723-1995 see details... Maine Historical Society 489 Congress Street [Wadsworth Longfellow house] [scrapbook] see details... Houghton Library Harvard Yard, Harvard University Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Miscellaneous papers, 1840-1882 (MS Am 1370). see details... Houghton Library Harvard Yard, Harvard University Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Letters to Emmeline Austin Wadsworth, 1847-1877 (MS Am 1340.12). see details... see also: Longfellow, Fanny Appleton, 1817-1861 Longfellow, Charles Appleton «  back