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AMERICAN AUTHORS, EDUCATORS AND CLERGYMEN]. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph letter signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), Cambridge, 5 December 1878. 1 page, 12mo . Declining an invitation to the New England Society -- WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Autograph letter signed ("John G Whittier"), to Josiah M. Fiske, 12 February 1878. 3 pages, 4to . Declining an invitation to the Annual Meeting of the New England Society and discussing the similarities and differences between the Puritans and his ancestors, the Quakers -- WHITTIER. Calling card signed ("John G. Whittier") -- HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Three autograph letters signed ("O W Holmes"), 1859-1887. Together 4 pages . Warm thanks and declining an invitation -- Calling card signed ("Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, 27 February 1872") -- BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. Three autograph letters signed ("W.C. Bryant"), 1852-1871. Together 3 pages, two on "Evening Post" headed paper . Calling card signed ("William Cullen Bryant. June 18, 1872") -- SMITH, SAMUEL. Autograph quotation signed ("S.F. Smith"). One stanza of "America," on a card -- And 42 others including: Rufus Choate (ALS), Timothy Dwight (3 ALSs), Edward Everett Hale (ALS), Dwight Lyman Moody (ALS), Wendell Phillipps (clipped signature), Theodore Sedgewick Jr. (ALS), Frank R. Stockton (printed message signed), William D. Howells (TLS), J.R. Lowell (ALS), Edward Everett (ALS), Bliss Carmen (AMS, poem "In a Copy of Browning", 2pp.), W.E. Channing II (ALS), W.E. Channing (4 ALS). (55)