BIB_ID
296090
Accession number
MA 2533.7
Creator
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
Display Date
1889 Feb. 6.
Credit line
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.2 cm
Notes
Hearn gives his return address as "c/o Monsieur C. Leopold Arnoux, Notaire à St. Pierre Mart'que."
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).
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).
Provenance
Ralph Walker.
Summary
Saying that he has not received her book because of "a succession of quarantines, embargoes, delays in the mail, [and] interruptions of all steam-communication"; apologizing for not writing sooner; commenting on the difficulty of working in Martinique; describing his trip to New York and noting that it is a "bewildering place" and he would "not like to think of being lost and deafened in it again"; telling her that he does "not think [he] will ever return permanently to the U.S."
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