... in author- ity ; and his importance was vastly increased in the village by a pair of double - barrelled specta- cles , so contrived , that , when bent over his desk and deeply buried in his musty papers , he could look up and see what ...

These final volumes of Andrew Hilen's admired edition bring together the extant Longfellow letters of 1866-1882, most of which have never before been published.