File:Linton J. White to Alice Mary Longfellow, 14 January 1907 (e2acb7e8-e585-463f-b0b1-cb45a8447c55).jpg

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Manuscript letter

Archives Number: 1007.001/002.003-001#097

Columbus, Ga.
Jan 14, 1907
Dear Miss Longfellow,
Have waited to express my appreciation of your kind Christmas remembrance until I had opportunity to read the book. First of all let me thank you for the fact of remembrance, and then for the selection, and the beautiful copy. Think the piece titled “Spy Rock" the best of the work and believe the book would have been stronger without the last piece;- “The Lost Word." This taken separately, or in some other relation [p. 2] would have appealed to me, but some how its [s of its crossed out] seems “too orthordox" [sic] to be in keeping with the rest of the work. It may be said that the object of the book would have been lost, that life's mysterious incompleteness, as man feels it and as portrayed in “The Blue Flower,” would have remained unexplained but for the “Lost Word,” for as Emerson says, - "What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?” Yet, as I believe Emerson felt, - though we have intelligent faith in the Supreme, [p. 3] still the quest for happiness, knowledge, for completeness must go on. Emerson says somewhere that this very disposition is evidence for “Immortality,"
Am sending under separate wrapper an article taken from “The Outlook," which I'll please ask you to return as its a gift.
Miss Longfellow, I heartily appreciate your kind interest and especially thank you for the book, as its aid is inestimable.
Trusting that “The Source" flows on for you, and that you “find the King” in living his spirit, I am,
Respectfully,
J. Linton White.

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English: NPGallery
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English: J. Linton White
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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English: Organization: Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: LONG_archives@nps.gov
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LONG
NPS Museum Number Catalog
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LONG 16173
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English: Alice Mary Longfellow, 1850-1928
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English: Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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e2acb7e8-e585-463f-b0b1-cb45a8447c55
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English: U. S. National Park Service

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