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Identifier
MSS114_B01F04_004
Creation Date
2-13-1895
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Letter on letterhead of The Independent, 130 Fulton St., New York
Feb. 13, 1895
Mr. Paul Lawrence Dunbar [name misspelled]
Dayton, O.
My dear sir: -
I take the liberty to call your attention to one or two lines in your poem “Retrospect.” The line, “Wind fanned our fevered brows,” lacks a foot, and on the next to the last line on that page the word choir is used as a two-syllabled work.
I call your attention to these little faults because this poem had been sent to our office before, and so on reading it the second time they showed possibly all the plainer. I like the spirit and movement of the poem very much and should have been glad to use it were we not very much crowded in our poetic department.
Yours very truly
OFFICE EDITOR
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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
