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Among the American authors whose manuscripts are on exhibition are Hawthorne, Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Mrs. Stowe, Mrs. Celia Thaxter, E. R. Sill, Bayard Taylor, and Alan Seeger. These are in addition to other authors' manuscripts permanently on exhibition in the Treasure Room in the drawers of the central case. In the cases in the Widener Room are shown other manuscripts of Burns, Lamb, Scott, Stevenson, Swinburne, Thoreau, and Waitier...
Some incompleted or newly-begun projects are: 1) A monument to poet Longfellow in Grande Pré, Nova Scotia, scene of Evangeline; 2) a monument to Commodore Perry, near Erie, Pa., scene of the Battle of Lake Erie; 3) a movement to turn into a National Museum the Sub-Treasury Building, Wall Street, where Washington took oath of office; 4) a scheme for building a paved highway from New York to San Francisco, flanked all the way by monuments, as a memorial to the Americans who died...
Miss Alice Longfellow, daughter of the famed poet: "I issued a statement giving the lie to an allegation that the smithy concerning which my father once wrote was situate in Newbury, England. Said I: 'As a child I was always perfectly familiar with the smithy down the street here at the corner of Brattle and Story Streets [Cambridge, Mass.], and never had any doubt but that it was the original of the poem. My father passed this smithy every morning on his walks to the Village. He never was in England for any sufficiently long period to pass...
Here are all makings of a pretty scandal. In the unavoidable absence of Mr. Longfellow, no one can determine whether Mr. Dexter Pratt, who lived on Brattle Street, was he of the famous muscles, or whether the poet's hero spoke with a strong Kentish accent. The only possible solution is that Mr. Pratt was a man of means who kept two establishments. Or possibly the poet was inspired by the cumulative effect of two constant trees...
...claim of the British building to the honor of having inspired Longfellow's familiar verses is not the first to have come to light, but according to the owners of the "Cock Horse", a tavern which now occupies the home of the blacksmith, and to several old inhabitants of the district such claims are entirely spurious. "There is no truth in the story," said Miss Withey, who has lived next door to the blacksmith's house for over 70 years; when the reporter asked her if the true smithy were in England and not in Cambridge. "I remember playing under...