From Portland to Cambridge
HWL. "Erny's Wooden Cockerel" from Little Merrythought. Drawing, 1847.
Longfellow Papers MS Am 1340 (165). Houghton Library. |
Longfellow also made an effort to include the children's pets and toys in his narrative, notably a wooden rooster, given to him as a kind of silent alarm-clock and portrayed here, life-sized, in watercolor. |