Letters from the Raven; being the correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin, with introd and critical comment by the editor, Milton Bronner . o build a sugarmill, &c, is of course enormous; but men oftenbegin with a few acres and become well-to-do ina few years. Louisiana thirsts for emigrants as adry land for water. I was thinking of writing totell you that I think you could do something inthe way of the fruit business to make it worthyour while to come down,—oranges, bananas, andtropical plants sell here at fabulously low are of course perishable freight whenripe; but
Letters from the Raven; being the correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin, with introd and critical comment by the editor, Milton Bronner . o build a sugarmill, &c, is of course enormous; but men oftenbegin with a few acres and become well-to-do ina few years. Louisiana thirsts for emigrants as adry land for water. I was thinking of writing totell you that I think you could do something inthe way of the fruit business to make it worthyour while to come down,—oranges, bananas, andtropical plants sell here at fabulously low are of course perishable freight whenripe; but oranges are not, and I hear they sell atfifty cents a hundred, and even less than that ashort distance from the city. So there are manyother things here one could speculate in. I thinkwith one partner North and one South, a firmcould make money in the fruit business here. Butthere, you know I dont know anything about 44 Letters from The Raven business. Whats the good of asking me aboutbusiness? If you come here,you can live for almost no-thing. Food is ridiculously cheap,—that is, cheapfood. Then there are first-class restaurants here,. FACSIMILE OF ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO MR. WATKIN BY HEARN where the charge is three dollars for dinner. Butboard and lodging is very cheap. . I have written twice to the Commerical, buthave only seen one of my letters, — the Forrestletter. I have a copy. I fear the other letters willnot be published. Too enthusiastic, you I could not write coolly about beautiful Lou-isiana. . Oh, you must come to New Orleans some- Letters from The Raven 45 time,—no nasty chill, no coughs and cold. Thehealthiest climate in the world. Eternal summer. It is damp at nights however, and fires are litof evenings to dry the rooms. You know the landis marshy. Even the dead areunburied,—they areonly vaulted up. The cemeteries are vaults, notgraveyards. Only the Jews bury their dead; andtheir dead are buried in water. It is water three—yes, two—feet u
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