BIB_ID
103945
Accession number
MA 2534.1-76
Display Date
undated [1875-1877].
Credit line
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Description
76 items (ca. 132 p.) ; various sizes + + 19 envelopes
Notes
Collection consists of 76 letters: 18 autograph letters signed from Hearn to Mrs. Freemen (1 incomplete, 2 unsigned); 32 from Mrs. Freemen to Hearn (11 unsigned); 23 from Mrs. Freeman to Watkin (13 unsigned); and 3 and from Watkin to Mrs. Freeman. Letters are described individually in 76 catalog records (MA 2534.1-76); see related records for more information.
Dating: Hearn's relationship with Ellen Freeman seems to have formed in 1875. In 1876, they argued, and in 1877 Hearn moved to New Orleans.--Cf. A fantastic journey: the life and literature of Lafcadio Hearn, by Paul Murray (1993), p. 45 and Letters from the Raven, ed. Milton Bronner (1906), p. 113.
Most of the letters in this collection were probably written in 1876.
Dating: Hearn's relationship with Ellen Freeman seems to have formed in 1875. In 1876, they argued, and in 1877 Hearn moved to New Orleans.--Cf. A fantastic journey: the life and literature of Lafcadio Hearn, by Paul Murray (1993), p. 45 and Letters from the Raven, ed. Milton Bronner (1906), p. 113.
Most of the letters in this collection were probably written in 1876.
Provenance
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Summary
Chronicling the development of Mrs. Freeman's friendship for Hearn into a passionate attachment followed by a violent break mediated by Watkin, Hearn writing meanwhile of his personality, life as a reporter, religion and aesthetics, and sending a short story about a Sultan and neighboring Sultana.
Housed in
In 2 brown morocco solander cases by Gerlach (28.6 cm)
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