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The Harvard College Library, which encompasses the entire library system, may offer to buy the manuscript from Holmes, Curator of Manuscripts Leslie A. Morris said yesterday.
Holmes said he will stop accepting bids for themanuscript at five o'clock today.
When he bought the manuscript, Holmes said heand his wife Deborah had never heard ofLongfellow.
Morris, who said she had seen only a facsimileof the manuscript Holmes found, listedverification of the manuscript's authenticity asanother pre-bid consideration.
Baker, whom Holmes contacted in April, was thefirst academic to examine the manuscript. She wasthe only professor who gave it any attention,Holmes said.