Black Love in Letters: Part 3, Paul and Alice

Alice Performed by u/ReadByRanae 

Edited by u/AsterionAudio, SleepDaddy ASMR, and both narrators

Art by u/TamedSiren and u/ReadByRanae

Summary:

The following are letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of, if not the first African American writer to reach international fame for his poems and other literary works, and Alice Ruth Moore, a highly influential poet, essays, activist, and more. Both were the children of formerly enslaved persons. The letters read were written shortly after their engagement. This is Part 3, letter 1, from Paul.