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Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Alice Wellington Rollins, [1889].

BIB_ID
296088
Accession number
MA 2533.6
Creator
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
Display Date
[1889].
Credit line
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21.3 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 comment that his Chita is coming out in book form; Chita appeared in Harper's in 1888 and in book form in 1889.
Provenance
Ralph Walker.
Summary
Discussing the influence of "tropic nature" on "one's being"; praising her courage "under the most trying circumstances which it is possible for a woman to be placed in"; noting that he has been back from Martinique for nearly four weeks; saying that he is "busy getting out a book of tropical sketches"; reporting that "Chita is coming out in book form."