Paul Hamilton Hayne, Augusta, Georgia, to Mary Mapes Dodge, New York, 1874

Extent:

2 p.

Scope and content:

[Expresses admiration for the new St. Nicholas magazine; offers for possible publication a prose sketch of Southern country life as it was 40 or 50 years ago, written by his mother, a lady of 68, "but bright- minded and alert"; says that the story describes, among other things, the mingling of white children with plantation Negroes.]

Names:

Paul Hamilton Hayne
Mary Mapes Dodge

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