Letters from the Raven; being the correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin, with introd and critical comment by the editor, Milton Bronner . task, he would come to Mr. Wat-kins office and read some books there. One otthese, whose title and author Mr. Watkin hasforgotten, fascinated at the same time that it re-pelled Hearn by its grim and ghastly stories ofbattle, murder,and sudden death. One night left him reading in the office. When heopened the place the next morning he found thisnote from Hearn: 10 These stories are positively so hor-rible that even a materialist fe
Letters from the Raven; being the correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin, with introd and critical comment by the editor, Milton Bronner . task, he would come to Mr. Wat-kins office and read some books there. One otthese, whose title and author Mr. Watkin hasforgotten, fascinated at the same time that it re-pelled Hearn by its grim and ghastly stories ofbattle, murder,and sudden death. One night left him reading in the office. When heopened the place the next morning he found thisnote from Hearn: 10 These stories are positively so hor-rible that even a materialist feels rather unplea-santly situated when left alone with the thoughtsconjured up by this dreamer of fantastic brain-chambers of fancy become throngedwith goblins. I think I shall go home. For signature there was appended a very blackand a very thoughtful-looking raven. It was also in these days that Hearn indulged Letters from The Raven 29 in his little pleasantries with Mr. Watkin. Hardlya day passed without a visit to the printing he did not find his friend, he usually lefta card for him, on which was some little drawing,. A PENCIL SKETCH BY HEARN LEFT AT MR. WATKIN SSHOP AT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR FRIENDSHIP Hearn having quite a talent in this direction,—a talent that he never afterward developed. Ofcourse some of the cards were just as nonsen-sical as the nonsense verses friends often writeto each other. They are merely quoted to showHearns fund of animal spirits at the time. Mr. Watkin one day left a card forpossible cus-tomers : Gone to supper. H. W. Hearn passedby and wrote on the opposite side of the card:Gone to get my sable plumage plucked. Theinevitable raven followed as signature. It was 30 Letters from The Raven Hearns way of saying he had come to see and had then gone to a barber shop tohave his hair cut. Once he omitted the raven andsigned his note, Kaw. ^-*Wvuu FACSIMILE OF ONE OF THE CARDS HEARN LEFT ATMR. WATKINS SHOP On another
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