Tinker, Edward Larocque, 1881-1968

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a writer, translator, and teacher who wrote about New Orleans, the United States and is most well known for introducing the culture and literature of Japan to the West. Hearn spent ten years in New Orleans collecting songs for ethnomusicologist Henry Edward Krehbiel. Edward Laroque Tinker was a writer and a philanthropist who was interested in Hearn and wrote Lafcadio Hearn's American days (1924).

From the guide to the Papers concerning Lafcadio Hearn, 1877-1933., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

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