BIB_ID
296079
Accession number
MA 2534.5
Creator
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
Display Date
1876.
Credit line
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.7 cm
Notes
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.
This may be the poorly-worded acceptance for which a letter dated 1875 (MA 2534.2) apologizes.
Written on Cincinnati Commercial stationery, and dated "Thursday P.M. 1876" by Hearn.
This may be the poorly-worded acceptance for which a letter dated 1875 (MA 2534.2) apologizes.
Written on Cincinnati Commercial stationery, and dated "Thursday P.M. 1876" by Hearn.
Provenance
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Summary
Discussing the difficulty of accepting invitations, noting that "one of the misfortunes of a journalistic existence is the inability of a newspaperman to fulfill an appointment, meet an engagement, or definitely accept an invitation ... as he may at any moment be ordered to the most outlandish places in the pursuit of news," and provisionally accepting an invitation for Sunday.
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