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Identifier
MSS114_B01F03_002
Creation Date
7-9-1894
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Full text of letter:
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Springfield O. July 94
My dearest little Paul:
I know you will be somewhat surprized when you receive this note. But for the present it will have to answer in the place of me. It is utterly imposable for me to come before Saturday. I hope you will not feel disapointed. Della has returned by this time I presume, and you are happy agan. I have sewed untill quite late an am so sleepy now that writing is almost
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imposable. yet I find pleasure in writing to you. I only wish you were here by me instead of having to write.
Did you have to wait on your train very long. We found that our clock was a little fast. Well Dearest be content untill I come from your Loving little Cad.
Goodby
Three kisses
P.S. Do not examin the penmanship
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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
