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Identifier
MSS114_B01F05_001
Creation Date
7-1-1895
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Full text of letter:
1st July, 1895
Mr. Paul L. Dunbar,
Dear Sir:
I have been a long time getting to your story. I was not in town when it came, and found a great accumulation [of] work when I returned. The story is well written, and moves forward in a good swift way, and shows several virtues. But I am forced to say that it does not seem very real to me; and I don’t see how we can use it. I hope you wont take this judgment to heart, however. It means, at the worst merely that you are to try again; for we shall be very glad to hear from you again. I saw your poem in the “Century” & congratulate you on it.
Yours Truly, E.C. Martin.
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Primary Item Type
Business Correspondence
Rights
This item is part of the Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection, which belongs to the Ohio History Connection, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, visit http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information. 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 part of the Paul Laurence Dunbar House Historic Site, which is operated by the National Park Service in partnership with the Ohio History Connection.
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
