Longfellow, Charles Appleton

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role

Collector

dates

1844-1893

city

Cambridge

state

MA

sex

M

historical notes

Collector, traveler, yachtsman, and Henry and Fanny Longfellow's eldest son.

Charles collected a wide range of ceramics, textiles, paintings, and bronzes during his twenty-month sojourn in Japan, from June 1871 until March 1873, shipping over twenty crates of furnishings and decorative arts home to his family in Cambridge.

A year after his return, Charles and his cousin Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. decorated his sitting room in the Longfellow House with many of his finds, covering the ceiling with Japanese fans, and displaying prints and furniture in the room.

decades
of activity

1870-1880
1880-1890

website

http://www.longfellowfriends.org; www.hwlongfellow.org

updated

03/22/2024 12:09:30

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Longfellow National Historic Site Archives	Charles Appleton Longfellow (1844-1893) Papers, 1842-1996 (Bulk dates: 1862-1891)	see details...
Longfellow National Historic Site Archives	Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow (1817-1861) Papers, 1825-1961 (Bulk dates 1832-1861)	see details...