China and the West

The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [ID D30134].
Undated
To James Thomas Fields
Please let me know to-day if possible, whether you send a box to Routledge by the China on Wednesday. I wish very much to put some book into it, if you do.

1838
To Stephen Longfellow ; Cambridge August 23, 1837
The Chinese Puzzle I was puzzled to find : and did not find one worth buying.

1840
To Willis Gaylord Clark ; Cambridge July 5, 1840
The reason I did not inflict my brother upon you was, that he merely passed through Philadelphia ; and being desirous of seeing the Library and that beautiful Chinese collection, I gave him a letter to our friend Smith.

1843
To Julia Ward ; Cambridge Jan. 16, 1843
If the Chinese Proverb be true, that "a coach and six cannot bring back a word once spoken",
I beg you to send a coach and seven ; or if necessary two coaches.

1867
To George Routledge ; Cambridge May 24, 1867
I send you to day some sheets of the Paradiso, which may turn out to be duplicates, but I am not quite sure. All the rest have been sent ; in part through your house in New York last week, and in part by the China on Wednesday from here.

1869
To James Thomas Fields ; Camb. Nov. 24, 1869
In the name of the Prophet – Tea ! When shall we go together to China or India (wharf) in pursuit of the fragrant herb ? and where was it we made our last purchase thereof ?

1870
To James Thomas Fields ; Camb. June 28, 1870
If the weather permits I shall come in tomorrow or next day – more likely next day – to take you with me in search of the Blue China.
To George Washington Greene ; Nahant July 10, 1870
I wish the Fainéant Congress would rise, and let Somner loose. I agree with him about the Chinese ; and about striking the word white out of every law of the land. [Sumner wrote a report dated June 24, 1870, which advocated the return to China of any surplus remaining of the Chinese Indenmnity Fund after the payment of all just claims].

1871
To Julia Sumner Hastings ; Cambridge May 18, 1871
May I recall myself to your recollection by introducing my son Charles, who is on his way to Japan and China.
To Charles Appleton Longfellow ; Nahant Aug 9, 1871
We have been delighted to receive your letters from the Pacific Steamer and are now looking for tidings from Japan, to tell us that you are well, and well-satisfied with your journey so far. Miss Dora Clark tells us that Arthur thinks of coming home soon, on a visit. I hope he will not have left China before you reach there.

1873
To Charles Appleton Longfellow ; Camb. June 20, 1873
It is so uncertain whether this letter will ever reach you that I do not, or shall not make it very long. It is only a word, to say that we got your first letter from China, a month ago, or more, and since have heard nothing of your movements.

1874
To Charles Appleton Longfellow ; Camb. Feb. 19, 1874
Your description of a trip up the Chinese canals we all greatly liked. Uncle Tom and Sumner insist upon having it published, and I think it ought to be, but don’t know what you would say to it.
To Mary Appleton Mackintosh ; Camb. March 3, 1874
Charley we are looking for in a month or two. He has been gone nearly three years ; and has sent from home from Japan and China screens without end and boxes without number.

1877
To Henry Mills Alden ; Camb. Aug 4, 1877
For China. Vase. Jacquemart Plate I. p. 14. – Porcelain tower of Nankin. Jacquemart. P. 55.
To Charles Lanman ; Camb. Nov 28, 1877
I shall put it away with The psalm of life written in Chinese on a fan. What I should like now is a literal re-translation of the Japanese into English. In the introduction there is a slight error, which perhaps is worth correcting. It is the Poet not the Potter, who takes the aerial flight, and in imagination visits far-off lands.

1878
To Richard Henry Stoddard. ; Camb. April 28, 1878
I am sorry that it comes to me too late for India ; but it is in season for China and the Nile, and I am very glad to have it. Those regions will be the richer for it.
To George Washington Greene ; Camb. April 29, 1878
Here, Poems of places have shut out the dull weather. I have been in India and China and Japan, and am now in Africa, where it is hot and dry enough.
To Richard Henry Stoddard ; Camb. May 19, 1878
When I send you the volume of Poems of places containing China, which I will do as soon as it is published, I hope you will not think I have taken too many of your Chinese songs.
[Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Poems of places : Persia, India, Chinese empire, Japan. (Bosong : Houghton, 1878).]
To Edith Longfellow Dana ; Camb. Jan 16, 1878
Rosa had der hover in the Library instead, which was as good as a concert any day ; and I had Miss Bull's old china cup in my study, and wrote my thanks to her in a comparatively long letter.

1881
To Kate Gannett Wells ; Cambridge, Dec 29 (1881).
I was never so thoroughly taken to pieces and it will be as hard to put me together again as a chinese puzzle or a dissecting map of world.