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Identifier
MSS114_B02F02_010
Creation Date
7-11-1899
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Full text of letter:
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My dear friend
Your letter was most welcome to us all I assure you and my answer is to your own and that of your dear girl wife which came to me so long ago and to all appearances was so shamefully treated. I expected to reach you on the Tuesday which Mrs Dunbar suggested and has a bundle of the most outrageous literature
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packed up to take to you. I was prevented however from going at the very last moment and then slipped on hoping each day to go the next and awaking at last with a twinge at my heart strings to a knowledge that you had of course left New York. Please forgive me! I was with you both in spirit if not in flesh. And I need not assure you of my deepest sympathy. You must brace up! You have a wonderful
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future before you. People say splendid things of your work. And remember this up there in the silence [?] so close to God that your name rings from one end of the country to the other and you have seen less than thirty summers.
I plod on. I have done two scraps this morning which I send you in the rough that you may realize the beauty of your own work by comparison. I also send you this weeks literature, hoping you haven’t it. Do you have the Outlook and have you read Mr Donly [?]? I shall also send you the “Red Raven Splits” advertisements (the last is a slap at Mrs Dunbar because she wouldn’t let me make fun of your literary novels.
Write me soon both of you and believe me always
Your sincere friend,
Nancy Woodhouse
July Eleventh
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Primary Item Type
Personal 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
