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: Pleae help me find out when Longfellow may have : visited Boston before he took the post as the Smith : Chair of Modern Languages at Harvard in 1836. : My astronomical ysis of "Light of Stars" (Voices of : the Night 1839) is nearly complete. However, I need to : reconcile some details in his prefacing remarks to the : poem: : "This poem was written on a beautiful summer night. : The moon, a little strip of silver, was just setting behind : the groves of Mount Auburn, and the planet Mars : blazing in the southeast. There was a singular light in : the sky." : I am aware of the 6-volume set, "Letters of Henry : Wadsworth Longfellow" published shortly after his : death, but I do not have access to them (I could not find : an online access either). Longfellow's Journal entries : may solve the problem. Though he left Portland for : Brunswick Sept 22, 1830, I am hopeful that he was in : Cambridge around Sept 19-21, 1830. Nevertheless, I : need to establish when he made his summer : observations on Mount Auburn. His notes undoubtedly : recreated the images for which he wrote about in the : poem years later. : Thank you for your help. : John

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