SCHOMBURG, ARTHUR A. Two Autograph Letters Signed and three Typed Letters Signed to Mrs. Dorothy Porter. Uniform 4tos: two pages, and one page, on Schomburg's Fisk University letterhead and New York Public Library letterhead, respectively; with retained copies of replies to the 1938 correspondence. should be seen. Nashville, 1931; New York City, 1938
Arthur A. Schomburg (1874-1938) collector and historian was born in Puerto Rico, the son of Mary Joseph, a free-born laundress. Little is known of his early education. But his life-long passion was the investigation and reporting of the African experience in the Americas. In these letters to fellow librarian and historian Dorothy Porter, Schomburg asks about a rare copy of Reverend Richard Allen''s "Oration on the African Slave trade," as well as other early printings by African-American authors.
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