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Tales of a Wayside Inn

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863. Held because it prints Paul Revere's Ride two decades before the collection this archive's own telling was lifted from.

Document

Type
book
Author
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher
Boston, Ticknor and Fields
Published, as stated
1863
Language
en
Media type
text/plain; charset=utf-8
Size
128982 bytes
Preservation
preserved
Digest (SHA-256)
b5212694ced64596041cbe1c53798f61602e079225039ba9b53b6f50eb3a41d0

Text

Extracted text, as held. Quoted without alteration.

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Who wrote Tales of a Wayside Inn, and who published it?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote it. Boston, Ticknor and Fields published it, 1863.

Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.

Does the archive hold Tales of a Wayside Inn itself, or only the record of it?

The archive holds the bytes. Their digest, computed on the bytes as retrieved and before any transform, is SHA-256 b5212694ced64596041cbe1c53798f61602e079225039ba9b53b6f50eb3a41d0. Every retrieval carries that digest in a header, so no consumer has to take the archive's word for what it received.

Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.

What does the archive hold for Tales of a Wayside Inn, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Tales of a Wayside Inn from Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929 (public domain). 5 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:document:tales-of-a-wayside-inn
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/document/tales-of-a-wayside-inn
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/document/tales-of-a-wayside-inn.json
Version
1 · last changed 5 September 2026

Provenance

Source
Internet Archive — Boston texts — source of record
License
Public domain — published before 1929 (public_domain)
Retrieved
5 September 2026
Source identifier
talesawaysidein03longgoog
Attribution
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rights as stated
NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT (Internet Archive item rights review), corroborated by the item's own publication date of 1863 — before 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States

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3digestcomputed the SHA-256 of the bytes as retrieved, before any other steparchive-ingest 0.1.0
4stagewrote the bytes to the staging directory under their content addressarchive-ingest 0.1.0
5holdkept the transcription in full so the archive can quote a passage without leaving itselfarchive-ingest 0.1.0