BIB_ID
197208
Accession number
MA 4500
Creator
Ives, George, 1867-1950, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1922.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 15.2 x 10.2 cm
Notes
Dated "Sunday".
Written on letterhead stationery from the Royal Societies Club, St. James's Street.
Inscribed in pencil at upper left of first page: George C. Ives / Lit '22.
Written on letterhead stationery from the Royal Societies Club, St. James's Street.
Inscribed in pencil at upper left of first page: George C. Ives / Lit '22.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning a recent article on the personal predictions given to Oscar Wilde by the occultist and fortune teller "Cheiro" during a palm reading session, along with Ives's own recollection of Wilde's account of his meeting with Cheiro, "Oscar told me years ago that Cheiro had read his hand and said: I can see 3 more plays. O. said: But I am going to write a hundred plays. C. said: I can only see 3."; followed by the observation that "Oscar, with all his intellect, was superstitious", and Ives's own expression of skepticism regarding "palmists or astrologers or Theosophy or Christian Science, or any of those vague unproved cults."
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