[Letter to] Dear Friend
Contributors: Dwight, John Sullivan, 1813-1893, recipient
Series: Lydia Maria Francis Child Correspondence
Published: 1844
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Child praises the violinist, Ole Bull. Criticizes a French clique who underrated him. Asks Dwight to write an article on Ole Bull for the Democratic Review.

For reference to this letter and others connected with it, see pages 75-82, in George Willis Cooke's book, John Sullivan Dwight : brook-farmer, editor, and critic of music : a biography, (1898).

Above the salutation is the note by Child: Please not read this letter to strangers. I have written with too much abandon for the public eye.