Dato: 24. juli 1871
Fra: H.C. Andersen   Til: Henry W. Longfellow

[skrevet på samme papir som Brev med samme håndskrift, formentlig Robert Watts - og kan derfor sættes til samme dato!]

to Longfellow

My dear and highly esteemed friend and poet!

A talented young Dane, the editor of "Dagens Nyheder", Mr. Robert Watt, is going to visit America for the first time; I send you through him my kindest regards.

[overstr: He will happy by making your acquaintance and]

He will be happy by making your acquaintance and I shall be so by [overstr: learning] hearing news from you when he returns. I hope that you have got a copy of my "Collected works" from Hurd & Houghton; at least I have expressed a wish that you should have them send [!] and I hope that you will have a spare moment to glance at them.

My latest story "Lykke Peer" you will not find there, but it is in Scribners "Illustrated Magazine". /

If not great [overstr: wawing] rolling Ocean was between us and I was not 67 years old, then I should arrive in your mighty country some pleasant summerday. As it is, I can only send a letter and the kind regards

of

your friend and admirer

Hans Christian Andersen

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