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Creator
Monti, Luigi
Call number
MssCol 17884
Physical description
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Preferred Citation

Luigi Monti letter, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
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Letter from Luigi Monti, instructor of Italian at Harvard University and United States Consul to Italy, to William (no last name given), dated at Palermo, March 19th, 1869. Letter relates to an anticipated visit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; his quality of life in Palermo; concerns over the education of his daughter; and his consular work, diplomatic conditions, and interest in a position in Marseilles. References to Mrs. Parsons suggest that the recipient may be the poet Thomas William Parsons, Monti's brother-in-law.

Scope and arrangement

Letter from Luigi Monti, instructor of Italian at Harvard University and United States Consul to Italy, to William (no last name given), dated at Palermo, March 19th, 1869. Letter relates to an anticipated visit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; his quality of life in Palermo; concerns over the education of his daughter; and his consular work, diplomatic conditions, and interest in a position in Marseilles. References to Mrs. Parsons suggest that the recipient may be the poet Thomas William Parsons, Monti's brother-in-law.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Purchase, Wormser, 1934.

Processing information

Compiled by Kit Messick, 2013

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328