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Frances (Appleton) Longfellow to Reverend Samuel Longfellow, 12 September 1848
Manuscript letter
Dear Sam,
Our little Fanny has been very ill since you left & yesterday afternoon her happy life ceased to be ours- .
Without pain she passed into the happier one of God.
We ardently wished to have you with us today but we had not time [p. 2] to send for you.
Dr. Francis was chosen.
She sleeps in flowers at Mt Auburn & we try to still the hunger of our hearts. If you could have seen her angelic beauty & smile of heavenly joy last night you would have said – “A smile of God thou art.” I can write no more now dear Sam. Pray for us to bear this sorrow – We so wished you could [p. 3] have been here & first wrote by telegraph hoping you might, but found there was none.
With Henrys love
the ever affte
Fanny
Cambridge –
Tuesday Sept 12th
Our little Fanny has been very ill since you left & yesterday afternoon her happy life ceased to be ours- .
Without pain she passed into the happier one of God.
We ardently wished to have you with us today but we had not time [p. 2] to send for you.
Dr. Francis was chosen.
She sleeps in flowers at Mt Auburn & we try to still the hunger of our hearts. If you could have seen her angelic beauty & smile of heavenly joy last night you would have said – “A smile of God thou art.” I can write no more now dear Sam. Pray for us to bear this sorrow – We so wished you could [p. 3] have been here & first wrote by telegraph hoping you might, but found there was none.
With Henrys love
the ever affte
Fanny
Cambridge –
Tuesday Sept 12th
Archives Number: 1011/002.001-018#030
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
NPS Museum Number Catalog : LONG 20257
Title: Finding Aid to the Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow (1817-1861) Papers, 1825-1961 (bulk dated: 1832-1861)
URL: https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/archives.htm#FEAL
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2016-01-30
09/12/1848
Manuscript letter in Frances Appleton Longfellow Papers, Series II. Correspondence, A. Outgoing, 1848. (1011/002.001-018#030)
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Organization: Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: LONG_archives@nps.gov
Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: LONG_archives@nps.gov
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