The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

A Letter from the Hermit

The Hermit. "A Letter from the Hermit." Vanity Fair, July 7, 1860, 17.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
letter to the editor
satire
Abstract

Here, the Hermit admits a rather remarkable encounter with a Japanese, even despite his hundreds of years of life experience.