Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Alice Wellington Rollins, [ca. 1878] | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Mentioning the artist Elihu Vedder; discussing the poems in Rollins' The Ring of Amethyst; comparing her work to sonnets by [Dante Gabriel] Rossetti; noting that her book is "something that would not be appreciated, or, rather, understood, by the Philistines."

Manuscript, English, 1878

Publication:Collection of Lafcadio Hearn letters (MA 2533)

Physical Description:1 item (3 pages) ; 21.6 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:632308086

Notes:

The year of the letter is based on Hearn's critique of Rollins' The Ring of Amethyst, a book of poems published in 1878

Part of a collection of letters written by or to Lafcadio Hearn. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 2533.1-22)