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Identifier
MSS114_B01F04_016
Creation Date
4-15-1895
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Full text of letter:
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Apr. 15, 1895
Mr. Dunbar,
Dear Sir:
I am sure you like our selves, feel sad over the loss of our friend Hon. Fredk. Douglass.
We feel it in more ways than one.
He had first taken an active part in this school, and had he lived a few years longer would have helped us much.
He was with us last fall and attended five meetings in the interest of the school.
He was expecting to go again this
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spring and fall; but he has been called home no more to return to us.
It now remains for us to complete this building to his memory. I enclose to you our special appeal with other papers which will give some account of the school.
We truly hope to have your assistance in the completion of this building.
Yours sincerely
W.B. Weaver
Per E.I.S.
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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
