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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807–1882). The Poetical Works of… Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1881. 2 volumes, 4to. Numerous engraved plates and in text illustrations. Original publisher’s half morocco, raised bands, spines gilt (extremes rubbed). SIGNED AND DATED BY LONGFELLOW (24 June 1880) in Volume I on the half–title of “Voices of the Night”. Laid in with two admittance tickets to Hemenway Gymnasium, Memorial Hall and College [Harvard] Yard at Harvard University, on 25 June 1880, dated one day after the signature in the book. Includes an envelope bearing the notation in manuscript: “Given to Frank by the poet H.W. Longfellow June 1880” and embossed with Charles Scribner’s Sons on rear (possibly to the author Frank R. Stockton?). These tickets were presumably for an address given by Longfellow at the University where Longfellow was once a longtime professor from 1836 to 1854. In 1839, he wrote his first book of poetry titled “Voices of the Night” while on campus. Also laid in with other Longfellow related ephemera.