We drove over to our local indoor flea market to just poke around as the weather was cold and raining.
Most of the vendors there are amatures,just local folks selling stuff that's been kicking around for years or estate auctions.
Anyways,my wife and daughter found a shelf with some old books on it.My daughter is interested in poems and they found a very old Henry W. Longfellow book of various poems.
Not sure what the real name of the book is.It looked quite old and worn but binding was good.
The guy running that booth was so impressed that a 15 yo. girl was interested in literature and poem,especially Longfellow,he gave the book to her for nothing.
OK,that's not the strange part.
We're driving to the local restraunt for lunch and my daughter is thumbing through the book.
She says there's writing in the book and what apears to be a signature from Longfellow under the picture of the auther.
So I take a look and on one of the first pages it says something like"I hope you like this gift ***,from aunt ***
Christmas 1880.(forgot the names)
Then,turning the pages there's a very small picture of Longfellow(white beard)and a signature"Henry W Longfellow" under it.
The sig is quite small as well.But it definitely looks like all the examples I've found online.
There's a page that's like tissue seperating that sig page from the next.
Not sure if I should have it looked at.Normally I would just dismiss this.
But,Longfellow did teach at Harvard and lived in Cambridge Ma.



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