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Excerpt from Tales of a Wayside Inn
In the old time, it was a house of call for all travellers from Boston westward.
As snob, Mr. Longfellow must have made pus ing acquaintance with the tavern, when in 1826 he made a stagecoach journey from Boston to Al bany; he may also well have known the inn in its more recent days through report of his friend Dr. Parsons and Mr. Luigi Monti, who made it a. Te sort for themselves and friends. At any rate his intention was now clear enough, for a few days after his visit he writes to his companion, Mr. Fields, 17m Sudbury Tales go on famously. I have now five complete, with a great part of the Prelude.
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