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Identifier
MSS114_B02F02_009A
Creation Date
6-5-1899
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Windham, Conn.
June 5th, '99
To Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Washington, D.C.
My Dear Sir:
It gives me great pleasure, as Secretary pro. tem. of the Ann'l Meeting of the Board of Trustees of Atlanta University, held at Atlanta, May 31st, to inform you of a vote passed by them, which confers upon you the Honorary Degree of "Master of Arts."
The exact vote, as proposed by President Bumstead & passed unanimously, was as follows:
"Voted that the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts be conferred on Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar, of whom Mr. Wm. D. Howells has said that 'He is the only Negro of pure African extraction to feel the Negro life aesthetically and to express it lyrically.'"
There was more of the citation from Howells, but as my full record was left behind at Atlanta, and I have only the notes, I can only quote in part.
If you desire to address your acknowledgment personally to Dr. Bumstead, his Northern address is Rev. Horace Bumstead, D.D. 22 Greenville St., Roxbury, Mass.
Respectfully yours
Rev. Fred'k H. Means
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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
