A Manuscript for Tales of a Wayside Inn
Autograph Manuscript, signed and dated, of his poem of “The Kalif of Baldacca”.
Boston: February 12, 1864.
Price: $7,500.00
About the item
Working draft, 7 pages on 2 folded sheets of pale blue stationery; with several revisions in Longfellow's hand. 4to. A Manuscript for Tales of a Wayside Inn. Mounted on hinges and bound in quarter blue morocco and blue cloth and housed in a slipcase. Provenance: David Gage Joyce Sale, Hanzel Galleries, September 23, 1973.
Item #260612
First published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1864 and incorporated into Tales of a Wayside Inn as "The Spanish Jew's Tale. / Kambalu. Begun January 26, 1864 - Finished February 12, 1864. " His source for the "Kambalu" is Il Milione by Marco Polo.
Longfellow’s manuscript was originally consigned by James T. Fields to auction in June, 1864, for “The U.S. Sanitary Commission”.
