BIB_ID
296072
Accession number
MA 2534.4
Creator
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
Display Date
[1876].
Credit line
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21.8 cm
Notes
Dating: Hearn mentions: "I have not visited out since I was sixteen -- nine years ago." Hearn turned 25 in June of 1875.
Dating: See Letters from the Raven.
Part of a collection of correspondence between Lafcadio Hearn, Ellen Freeman, and Henry Watkin. Letters are described in individual catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Written on Cincinnati Commercial stationery.
Dating: See Letters from the Raven.
Part of a collection of correspondence between Lafcadio Hearn, Ellen Freeman, and Henry Watkin. Letters are described in individual catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Written on Cincinnati Commercial stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Summary
Discussing a social gathering at her house on Sunday, mentioning his awkwardness and noting his "poor hand at compliments." Referencing a "genealogical question" posed by the recipient, stating that she "might be able to obtain considerable information from old John D. Caldwell." Thanking her for a book (possibly on Tahiti).
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