The Public Poet

The remnants of pencils.

Photograph

Courtesy National Park Service, Longfellow National Historic Site LONG 7224, 7228, 7232, 7233, 7234

The remnants of pencils used for writing Evangeline, poems such as "Resignation" and "To My Children", the translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, The New England Tragedy, and "The Building of the Ship."