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#02 [Letter] 1838 November 8, Cambridge [to] John J.Hayes / Henry W. Longfellow.
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Cambridge Nov. 8. 1838.
Dear Sir,
I have had the honor of receiving
your letter of Oct. 25. with the request of
the Board of Directors of the Portsmouth
Lyceum. But as I could not, without much
inconvenience to myself, accept their invitation
to lecture. I beg you to present to them
my thanks for the honor they have done
me, and say that I respectfully decline.
Yours [undecipherable]
Henry W. Longfellow
John J. Hayes. Esq.