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Identifier
MSS114_B01F05_027
Creation Date
9-22-1896
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Stationery of James B. Pond, Everett House, 218 Fourth Ave., New York Established 1873. Cable Address: “STAMPHIX,” New York Residence: 380 Bergen Avenue, Jersey City Heights, N. J.
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Sept. 22
Dear Dunbar.
Sunday’s Journal has a full page with your portrait. It is excellent.
Mr. Dodd & I lunched together last Wednesday. He called to know if I could suggest anything to give the 4th coming book a boom.
I am not using your books. If you want them all sent to you I certainly have no objections & never had. I was under an impression that you gave Mr Dodd – on his suggestion – to understand that they would not be sent out. I sent one to Stanley and one to Sir Edwin Arnold & asked them to write a review for their London papers. You know just what I used & for what purpose. Certainly I did not use them with a mind to my own aggrandizement. My purpose has been
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to get you before the public for our mutual interest. If you think me capable of any other motive it seems to me that now is about time to close up our engagement.
Mr Edwins too has a clerk in my office & is working his own business.
Shall I send your book to Dayton?
Your sincerely
J. B. Pond
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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
