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Identifier
MSS114_B01F02_008
Creation Date
10-24-1892
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Dayton, Ohio Oct. 24/1892
C.A. Johnson
My Dear Sir,
Herewith I comply with your request to send you ten of my poems in manuscript, several of them are my earlier efforts while others are of quite late date. I hope after you have deciphered my writing you will not be wholly disappointed in the verses. I am preparing to publish a book of verse about Christmas, if you can send me the names of any sure buyers, you will greatly oblige me; Its price will be one dollar.
Hoping you will be satisfied with the verses sent.
(verso): I am Respt Yours
Paul L. Dunbar
140 W. Zeigler St.
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Primary Item Type
Business Correspondence
Rights
This item is part of the Paul Laurence Dunbar House collection at Ohio History Connection, Columbus, Ohio. The collection contains items from 219 N. Summit St., Dayton, Ohio (later 219 N. Paul Laurence Dunbar St.), the home Dunbar purchased for his mother, Matilda J. Dunbar, in 1904. Paul Laurence Dunbar lived there until his death in 1906; Matilda lived there until her death in 1934. It is now the Paul Laurence Dunbar House Historic Site, part of the National Park Service.
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
