When* Longfellow visited Queen Victoria it Windsor Castle the servants crowded(Jp the stairways and in-the lobbies ro get a view of him. On the Queen asking them next day, why this compliment was paid to the poet, she was told that they used to listen to Prince Albert reading "Evangeline" to his children. and4cnowing the lines nearly by heart, they longed to see the man who wrote them. The Queen' is fond of -telling this story.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3440, 3 January 1880, Page 3
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76Untitled Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3440, 3 January 1880, Page 3
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