BIB_ID
296015
Accession number
MA 2532.12
Creator
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
Display Date
1900 June 16.
Credit line
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 20.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope addressed to Gullman "Via America" in Berlin. This address has been canceled and a Paris address has been written below. With stamp and Japanese and German postmarks, as well as two lines written in Japanese.
Part of a collection of 15 letters from Lafcadio Hearn to the J. P. Stetson Co. representative Emil Gullman. Letters are described individually in 15 catalog records (MA 2532.1-15); see collection level record for more information.
Part of a collection of 15 letters from Lafcadio Hearn to the J. P. Stetson Co. representative Emil Gullman. Letters are described individually in 15 catalog records (MA 2532.1-15); see collection level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Summary
Thanking him for a box of "most curious cigars." Discussing Gullman's travels, noting "I don't know where else you can go, unless it be to the North & South Pole, -- or the Cannibal Islands," and wondering "who would have dreamed this possible, even fifty years ago?" Discussing the improbability of publishing his earlier works, and hoping to send him a new book soon. Describing the Prince Imperial's wedding, and giving a biographical sketch of the bride. Discussing the spreading pest (i.e., plague) pandemic, and noting that Gullman left China "just in time."
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