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Identifier
MSS114_B01F03_011
Creation Date
9-21-1894
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Alex Crummell reports unwelcome news to Paul Laurence Dunbar that the teaching position he inquired about was filled before Crummell was able to intercede on Dunbar's behalf.
Full text of letter:
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1522”O” St. Washington D.C.
Sept 194
Dear Mr Dunbar.
I am tardy. This illness, in communicating with you: & now I have t unwelcome news to send you, viz, that t appointment was made before yr letter reached me.
Can I serve you in any other way? If I can let me know.
I am very truly yrs,
Alec Crummell
P.S. I am really distressed that
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I have had to keep you waiting all this time for an answer to yr letter: – but t case is as follows.
– I have been sick: –
yr letter was on my table, but got misplaced: — no body cd. find it, & so yr address was lost: –
At last I have found a friend here who knew you lived in Dayton: & so, at haphazard– ignorant of yr street & number – I direct to Dayton Please pardon this misadventure wh distresses me very, very much!
A.C.
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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
