BIB_ID
196434
Accession number
MA 14277.1
Creator
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939, sender.
Display Date
West Drayton, England, 1911 November 23.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (2 pages) ; 25.3 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery from "Woodpecker, / West Drayton, / Middlesex."
Identity of recipient from Gordon Ray checklist; supported by internal evidence, including references in related letters to a series of articles in Notes and queries on the subject of "Casanova in England" (see MA 14277.2-3).
Identity of recipient from Gordon Ray checklist; supported by internal evidence, including references in related letters to a series of articles in Notes and queries on the subject of "Casanova in England" (see MA 14277.2-3).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Stating that Oliver Wendell Holmes never referred to Casanova publicly in his writings, but was reported to have defended him in private at a dinner held for contributors to the Atlantic Monthly; informing the recipient that Ellis's own essay touching on the subject is included in a volume entitled "Affirmations", and adding that, of his books, this is the one he prefers; expressing his interest in a forthcoming book (on Casanova) by Dr. (Tage) Bull and noting that he believes the author had access to Casanova's papers, which were, he further notes, practically discovered by his friend Arthur Symons, who also had the opportunity to examine the original manuscript of Casanova's Memoirs, and adding that there has been a proposal to publish the manuscript "as Casanova wrote", which Ellis hopes "is really being done at last."
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