TY  - GEN
AU  - Force,M.F.
TI  - M.F. Force letter,
KW  - Eliot, Samuel,
KW  - Howe, Julia Ward,
KW  - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
KW  - Norton, Charles Eliot,
KW  - Harvard University
KW  - Faculty
KW  - United States
KW  - Kansas-Nebraska Act
KW  - American poetry
KW  - Missouri compromise
KW  - Slavery
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1815-1861
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Historians
KW  - Lawyers
N1  - Open to research
N2  - ALS (13 February 1852; Shady Hill, Cambridge, Mass.) to Force from Charles Eliot Norton providing details of his and others' opinions of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.  Norton also mentions Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's resignation of his professorship at Harvard University and the possibility of Samuel Eliot replacing him, and reviews Julia Ward Howe's book of poetry titled, Passion Flowers (1854)
ER  -