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Identifier
MSS114_B01F02_009A
Creation Date
3-11-1893
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Handwriting on back of card:
The more I think of my friend getting out an edition of our poems with your picture & biography in the front the more I think it will pay you. There are no colored poets in the field of your age & that fact will cause the newspaper man to take hold of the thing & ______ you favorably & earnestly & all this will help my friend to push your book. Hoping to _______ you are so situated as to do this. I am your friend.
Joshua Nickerson
My friend will aim to make you a better book & sell it for 25 cts. & get you a copy right for this book you may want to ___________.
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Primary Item Type
Personal 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
