BIB_ID
296095
Accession number
MA 2533.9
Creator
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
Display Date
1892 Apr. 23.
Credit line
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.8 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).
Written from "Tetorihon machi 34" in Kumamoto.
Written from "Tetorihon machi 34" in Kumamoto.
Provenance
Ralph Walker.
Summary
Praising her new book; mentioning that "sensations of the tropics, reawakened, come still to [him] painfully"; noting that he is now teaching in Kumamoto; describing Kumamoto as "an enormous ugly garrison-town, full of soldiery and Europeanization"; saying he hopes his first book on Japan will be out "in the fall, or by the beginning of '93"; telling her he has "a little Japanese wife [who is] the daughter of an old Samurai family of Izumo."
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