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Identifier

MSS114_B01F03_028

Creation Date

12-12-1894

Keywords

Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ohio history, Poetry, dialect poetry, biography, black history, black poets, primary sources, prominent Ohioans

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Cleveland, O.

Dec. 12-94

Dear Chum,

Received your note yesterday. Perfectly willing to employ with your request. Sent the “article” to you today via U.S. express Co. Please let me know at once, whither you rec’d it or not. Haven’t time to write more. Hadn’t heard of your engagement here. Keeping too close.

Very truly

W.A.B.

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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, Ohio history, Poetry, dialect poetry, biography, black history, black poets, primary sources, prominent Ohioans

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