Letter from Lafcadio Hearn to Horace Elisha Scudder

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This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.

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Tokyo: - Ushigome Ku, Ichigaya, Tomihisacho 21 Oct. 13th '76 Dear Mr. Scudder: - In sending you the Nirvana paper I had not the faintest possible idea that you could ever think of using it for the Atlantic. It was for a book, of course. I am not quite sure how The Monist would treat it typographically: so much depends, it seems to me, on the artistic printing of such a paper. The remuneration would not be a question to bargain over: besides, I believe that the price paid by such journal as the Open Court and The Monist are merely nominal. But in reply to your kind suggestion, I shall only say, "Please do whatever you think proper, providing only that

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the paper be decently printed. I hope if you print "Dust" (and thanks for kind words about it!), that you will not forget those little ideographs. To omit them would, I think, weaken the effect intended. I have MS. enough in my drawer; but alas, all condemned! There is something wrong with them. Perhaps I shall be able later to nurse one or two with life; but I do not intend to send you anything more that I do not feel perfectly sure of, after waiting to let the first glow of satisfaction fade out. Perhaps I may manage to have a volume finished in time for publication next fall; - that would mean MS. all ready by spring. Faithfully, Lafcadio Hearn Y. Koizumi

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