Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Alice Wellington Rollins, [1889].

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Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Alice Wellington Rollins, [1889].

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Discussing the influence of "tropic nature" on "one's being"; praising her courage "under the most trying circumstances which it is possible for a woman to be placed in"; noting that he has been back from Martinique for nearly four weeks; saying that he is "busy getting out a book of tropical sketches"; reporting that "Chita is coming out in book form."

1 item (4 p.) ; 21.3 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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