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DUNBAR: AN INTIMATE GLIMPSE
YOUNG

West Medford, Mass. Dec. 1, 1897

My darling: This is the last day of the old year, a year that will always be memorable to me as the one in which I met my Paul and was wooed and won by him..."

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
POET LAUREATE

"If the literature of Dunbar is taken upon its merits, we feel that both the prose and poetry of others of the race will be likewise favorably regarded, and in that sense the Negro people will be benefited. The lives of such men as Dunbar, Tanner and Du Bois, who have with others made a future for the people along higher lines, should inspire us all. There are many of the race here and there in nearly every city, building slowly but surely in literature and art and are making a way for those who are to follow.

"Greatness does not come to every man even though he may work for it, but there are some who by their own power of mind and personality tower above the common people, thereby showing that greatness is limited to no one people and to no one class of people. Mr. Dunbar was one of this class. His life, as has been said, was a brilliant one in a literary sense. He was a prolific writer as well. The large number of volumes emanating from his pen and the great interest manifested by the public at large in his works clearly prove that his powers were fed from a perennial spring."
1909

W. S. SCARBOROUGH

Former President Wilberforce University,
and famous Black Greek scholar.

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