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Identifier
MSS114_B01F04_007
Creation Date
3-8-1895
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Full text of letter:
New York, 8th Mch., 1895
Dear Mr. Dunbar:
I don’t quite see how we can use any of the included pieces. Poetry we have so little space for that it is about time to say we never buy it. As for the story, it has not plot enough for our use; is too much of a sketch. All of the pieces are well written, and also well conceived. I’m sorry we have to return them. I hope you won’t let our doing so discourage you. The most famed find the road you are on a long and hard one; and a stout heart is of perhaps more service on it even than a divine pen.
Yours truly, E.C. Martin
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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
