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Identifier
MSS114_B02F06_042
Creation Date
9-26-1905
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Full text of letter:
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Newberg
Sept. 26. 1905
Dear Mr Dunbar
My mother asks me to write you here to express her thanks + deep appreciation for the beautiful poem you have sent her. Both for the fine merit of the poetry + for the
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high tribute to my father expressed in it we shall always keep it with the greatest pride.
Allow me also to express my thanks to you, I am sincerely
Helen Hay Whiting.
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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
