Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:57:34 EST

From: AAllan AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: Re: There Was a Little Girl



From _Familiar Quotations_ by John Bartlett, 13th ed. 1955:

"Blanche Roosevelt Tucker, in _The Home Life of Henry W. Longfellow_ [1882],

states that these lines were written by the poet for his children on a day

when Edith did not want to have her hair curled."