Letters from the Raven; being the correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin, with introd and critical comment by the editor, Milton Bronner . —f> Letters from The Raven 73 so that I can press your hand only and say WW A FANCIFUL PENCIL SKETCH BY HEARN I must go North in a few months, by wayof Cincinnati, and spend a week or so in the city. 74 Letters from The Raven My intention is to see Worthington about a newpublication. He is now in Europe. Here I makethirty dollars a week for about five hours worka day, and the position appears tolerably solid;but the climate is ener
Letters from the Raven; being the correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin, with introd and critical comment by the editor, Milton Bronner . —f> Letters from The Raven 73 so that I can press your hand only and say WW A FANCIFUL PENCIL SKETCH BY HEARN I must go North in a few months, by wayof Cincinnati, and spend a week or so in the city. 74 Letters from The Raven My intention is to see Worthington about a newpublication. He is now in Europe. Here I makethirty dollars a week for about five hours worka day, and the position appears tolerably solid;but the climate is enervating, the man who re-fuses to connect himself with church or cliquelives alone like a hermit in the Thebaids, andone sickens of such a life at times. SometimesI fancy that the older I grow, the more distaste-ful companionship becomes; but this may be ow-ing to the situation here. Nevertheless I am feel-ing very old, old almost as the Tartar of Long-fellows poem, — three hundred and sixty the heavy, rancid air of a Southernswamp in midsummer, when the very cloudsseem like those which belonged to the atmo-sphere of pregeologic periods, uncreated lead andiron,— never a breath of pure air,—dust that ispowdered d
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