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Michigan - 1903
Lafcadio
Hearn
Japan - 1898
Japan - 1898
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| "I think I've done as well as my brother. It 's very different, of course. He was a genius in one way, but he didn't have any business head. But he did have a gift of language, and he suffered for it. I'd like to have met him. I offered to pay his expenses to Ohio, but he went off to Japan in a great hurry. Queer tenderhearted sort of a fellow he was, I believe." -James Daniel |
| "In
the letters [among] themselves, Lafcadio Hearn seems to have had a greater desire to visualize
his mother than to seek the comradeship of a brother. The remote and inaccessible seemed always
to be nearest his heart." |
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| "Dear
Brother, - I waited very anxiously for your letter; it has made me at once very glad and very sorry - glad to feel the reality of you, sorry to find you have had some experiences with the world not at all agreeable. But you have shown superb pluck, are independent, apparently, and - in every sense of the word - a thorough man! Her blood will bear him through everything, if he can keep his strength.' For I thought of you always as my double: a highly complex nervous organization, with her vital force. Now I would imagine you stronger than I, for you have done much beyond my power to attempt." - Lafcadio |
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James
Daniel Hearn in Connecticut 1874 |
Lafcadio
Hearn in Philadelphia 1889 |
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