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Wadsworth-Longfellow House |
Portland, ME |
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1807/02/27 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is born in Portland, Maine. |
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Portland, ME |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Birthday |
1815/00/00 |
Henry spends summers on his grandfather's farm fishing in Indian Camp Brook and the Curtis River (Stroudwater River). |
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Stephen Longfellow House |
Gorham, ME |
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1825/00/00 |
Graduates from Bowdoin College, enrolled in 1821 |
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Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College |
Brunswick |
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1829/09/02 |
Henry Longfellow becomes Professor of Modern Languages and College Librarian at Bowdoin College, 1829 to 1835 |
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Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College |
Brunswick |
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1833/00/00 |
Allen and Ticknor publish "Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique" by Jorge Manrique, translated from the Spanish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. |
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Old Corner Bookstore |
Boston |
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1837/00/00 |
Spring 1837, Henry Longfellow begins renting rooms from widow Elizabeth Craigie. |
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site |
Cambridge, MA |
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1842/00/00 |
"The Wreck of the Hesperus" is published in "Ballads and Other Poems" |
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The Wreck of the Hesperus |
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1843/07/13 |
Fanny Appleton marries Henry W Longfellow in the second floor drawing room of 39 Beacon St. |
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Nathan Appleton Residence |
Boston |
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Marriage of Fanny Appleton and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
1846/00/00 |
William D Ticknor and Company acquire all of Longfellow's works from John Owen in 1846 and issued them in a variety of editions and bindings. |
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Old Corner Bookstore |
Boston |
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1847/00/00 |
William D Ticknor and Company publishes "The Estray" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. |
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Old Corner Bookstore |
Boston |
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1848/00/00 |
William D Ticknor and Company publishes "Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. |
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Old Corner Bookstore |
Boston |
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1848/00/00 |
William D Ticknor and Company, Boston, publishes "Evangeline" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. |
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Old Corner Bookstore |
Boston |
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1853/06/14 |
Longfellow host a farewell dinner party for Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site |
Cambridge, MA |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Farewell Dinner Party |
1861/01/00 |
The Atlantic Monthly publishes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem, Paul Revere's Ride. |
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Paul Revere's Ride (poem) |
Old Corner Bookstore |
Boston |
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The Midnight Ride |
1862/10/00 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow visits the Howe Tavern. Inspired by the Inn's atmosphere and pastoral landscape, he will write a series of poems focused on a group of fictitious characters that regularly gathered at the old Sudbury tavern. |
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Tales of a Wayside Inn (book) |
Longfellow's Wayside Inn |
Sudbury, MA |
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1863/00/00 |
"The Cumberland" is included in "Tales of a Wayside Inn". |
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The Cumberland |
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1863/00/00 |
"The Theologian's Tale" is included in "Tales of a Wayside Inn". |
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Torquemada |
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1863/00/00 |
"The Falcon of Ser Federigo" is included in "Tales of a Wayside Inn". |
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The Falcon of Ser Federigo |
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1863/05/28 |
Saw the first black Regiment, or Regiment of Blacks march through Beacon St! An imposing sight, with something wild and strange about it, like a dream. At last the North consents to let the Negro fight for his freedom. - HWL |
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Nathan Appleton Residence |
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Establishment of the Shaw Memorial |
1863/11/00 |
Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow and Co, "Tales of a Wayside Inn" is published by Ticknor and Fields. |
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Tales of a Wayside Inn (book) |
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1863/12/25 |
Henry W Longfellow writes "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day". The poem will later became the lyrics for a Christmas Carol of the same name. |
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site |
Cambridge, MA |
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1864/05/23 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow serves as a pallbearer at Nathaniel Hawthorne's funeral in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. |
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery |
Concord, MA |
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Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne |
1865/02/00 |
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is published in Our Young Folks, a juvenile magazine published by Ticknor and Fields. |
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I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (poem) |
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1866/00/00 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow buys a cottage as a gift and residence for his friend, Professor George Washington Greene. |
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Windmill Cottage |
East Greenwich, RI |
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1866/07/01 |
HWL writes a friend: I have left the little girls in Portland, where I passed a day or two with them and among other things had a sail down Casco bay through the wooded islands and wished you were there. |
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Portland, ME |
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Great Portland Fire of 1866 |
1866/07/23 |
After visiting Portland, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes to a friend, "I have been in Portland since the fire. Desolation! Desolation! Desolation! It reminds me of Pompeii, the sepult city." He will donate $200 dollars to the sufferers. |
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Portland, ME |
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Great Portland Fire of 1866 |
1867/11/20 |
Henry W Longfellow visits Charles Dickens at the Parker House. "Perfectly white in hair and beard, but a remarkably handsome and notable-looking man." - CD |
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Dickens' Door and Mirror at the Parker House |
Parker House |
Boston |
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Charles Dickens' 1867 Tour of America |
1867/11/21 |
Henry W Longfellow, Ralph W Emerson, Oliver W Holmes and Louis Agassiz dine with Charles Dickens. |
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Charles Dickens' 1867 Tour of America |
1870/00/00 |
Henry W Longfellow buys the windmill and has it moved and then attached at the south-west corner of the house. The house is enlarged with a south-eastern kitchen ell. |
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Windmill Cottage |
East Greenwich, RI |
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1871/00/00 |
"The Poet's Tale, Lady Wentworth" is written circa 1871. |
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The Poet's Tale, Lady Wentworth |
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1871/00/00 |
Henry W Longfellow tours the Wentworth-Coolidge house, which he describes in his poem, Lady Wentworth |
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The Poet's Tale, Lady Wentworth |
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion |
Portsmouth, NH |
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Marriage of Martha Hilton and Benning Wentworth |
1876/07/00 |
As copper is removed from the roof of Old South Meetinghouse, a group of 20 Boston women organize to buy the building and enlist Ralph W Emerson, Julia W Howe, Henry W Longfellow, Louisa M Alcott and Wendell Phillips to rally people to pledge funds. |
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Old South Meetinghouse |
Boston |
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1880/04/18 |
Longfellow writes to Greene from Cambridge, "I have written several poems of late, one of which, 'The Windmill', I send you." Its first stanza runs: Behold a giant am I, Aloft here in my tower, With my granite jaws I devour, foundation fair |
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Windmill Cottage |
East Greenwich, RI |
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1888/09/29 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument unvieled |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument |
Portland, ME |
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