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Letter from Olive Custance, Weston, Norwich, to John Gray, 1890s?: autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
196008
Accession number
MA 14552.1
Creator
Custance, Olive, 1874-1944, sender.
Display Date
Weston, Norwich, 1890s?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Date inferred from information about Custance and Gray's relationship from John Gray: poet, dandy, and priest / Jerusha Hull McCormack. [Waltham, MA] : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1991.
Sheet embossed with "Weston / Norwich".
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Presuming that she should send him a copy of her "small book" since Gray has given her "such lovely books" and since she supposes he must be "impatient for a sign of [it]"; asking whether he saw Aubrey Beardsley in Paris, since she has not heard from him lately; notifying him that she had given a message from Gray to her mother, "though I told her it was type:written!"