BIB_ID
296085
Accession number
MA 2533.5
Creator
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
Display Date
[ca. 1878].
Credit line
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters written by or to Lafcadio Hearn. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 2533.1-22).
The year of the letter is based on Hearn's critique of Rollins' The Ring of Amethyst, a book of poems published in 1878.
The year of the letter is based on Hearn's critique of Rollins' The Ring of Amethyst, a book of poems published in 1878.
Provenance
Ralph Walker.
Summary
Mentioning the artist Elihu Vedder; discussing the poems in Rollins' The Ring of Amethyst; comparing her work to sonnets by [Dante Gabriel] Rossetti; noting that her book is "something that would not be appreciated, or, rather, understood, by the Philistines."
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