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Collection of Lafcadio Hearn letters : Japan and other places, to various recipients, 1878-1902.

BIB_ID
296349
Accession number
MA 2533.1-22
Creator
Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.
Display Date
1878-1902.
Credit line
Gift of Ralph Walker, 1967.
Description
1 folder (22 items), unbound ; size varies + 4 envelopes
Notes
Some letters include postmarks and stamps.
Provenance
Ralph Walker.
Summary
A collection of letters written by or to Lafcadio Hearn. The collection includes letters from Hearn to J. W. Bouton (MA 2533.1); Elizabeth Bisland (MA 2533.2); Alice Wellington Rollins (MA 2533.4-10); Paula Baltzer (MA 2533.11); Howard Malcolm Ticknor (MA 2533.12); Mrs. H. Harrison (MA 2533.13); John Foord (MA 2533.14); Mary Louise Booth (MA 2533.15); Little, Brown (MA 2533.16-7); Houghton, Mifflin (MA 2533.19-20); an autograph description of Japan's sacred name (MA 2533.3); a letter from Little, Brown to Hearn (MA 2533.18); a letter from James R. Osgood to Hearn (MA 2533.21); and a letter from R.H. Stoddard to Hearn (MA 2533.22). Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 2533.1-22).
Housed in
Formerly housed in a brown quarter leather and decorative paper slipcase (32.7 cm)