George Gould, the Philadelphia physician who sheltered Lafcadio Hearn for a time, sets down what he knew of the man: his heredity and early life, his appearance and near-blindness, his years in New Orleans and Martinique and his final turn to Japan. Gould is candid to the point of hostility, and Laura Stedman adds a detailed bibliography of Hearn’s writings.
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