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Autograph letter signed : Kobe, Japan, to Alice Wellington Rollins, 1895 Dec. 17.

BIB_ID
296097
Accession number
MA 2533.10
Creator
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
Display Date
1895 Dec. 17.
Credit line
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 20.3 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).
Written from "Nakayamate-dori, Shichi-chome, Bangai 16."
Provenance
Ralph Walker.
Summary
Thanking her for sending her new book and noting that they have "been thinking about the same problems" in their literary works; commenting on the mildness of the Japanese climate; reporting that his eyes have been troubling him; mentioning Elizabeth Bisland; asking her to find a review of his books on Japan that appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes; discussing his relationship with his publisher, Houghton, Mifflin.