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Identifier
MSS114_B01F04_010A
Creation Date
3-22-1895
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Full text of letter:
(Page 1)
Friday afternoon
March 22 95
To Mr Dunbar
Dear Sir
Your Mother wishing to send you a few lines that you may not be ansicous [sic] on her account she wishes me to say she is quite well but very
(Page 2)
dull and will be glad to have you home again still if you can make anything besides your board with miss Mabby all means except her offer but she wishes you to come home and make some arrangements
Mr Stephen’s has inquired
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about you and is proud of your success
Your Mother will give Carrie her portion when she sees her I am spending the afternoon with your Mother a gentleman of your acquaintance has called and we are having a very comfortable time
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I am glad you are happy at last may it continue
Your Mother sends her love
I remain
M Clark
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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
