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Identifier
MSS114_B01F05_014
Creation Date
8-23-1895
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Full text of letter:
August 23rd, 1895.
Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar,
Dayton, Ohio.
Dear Sir:
We give you formal permission to use with music the words of the poem, “A Negro Love Song,” from the April “Century,” with credit to the author and magazine.
Yours very truly,
W Ellsworth
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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
