Autograph letter signed : Woodford, to Arthur Moore, [1889 Jan. 11].

Stating that Dowson "knew [Moore] would appreciate the Daudet" and asking him to forward it to Victor Plarr when he is finished. Mentioning that he dined with Plarr the previous day at the Holborn, and admitting that his beverage was "café au rhum." Noting that business at the dock is brisk, and enclosing (not present) a letter from "ma petite Californienne," asking "is not the spelling divine?" Encouraging Moore in his attempt to publish in the London Society, and intending to send him a Pall Mall. Inviting Moore to visit Bruges. Discussing his recent reading habits, noting: "I am taking up my old classics again, so great is the dearth of novels here. Pliny is charming so is Ovid: -- of Horace, I find, a little goes a long way." Admiring Sir Thomas Browne as "the only man anterior to Flaubert who had a passion for the right word." With a postscript asking Moore to send him titles of "some readable novels," mentioning Lucas Malet, Daniel Deronda, and Balzac; encouraging Moore in his work, stating "write, write, write, it is the only endurable employment except when one is fortified with a glass of absinthe;" discussing an adorable child who "hath 6 years & is my frequent visitor, especially since she has realised that my desk contains chocolates," noting "it is astonishing how pretty & delicate the children of the proletariate are;" and noting that Dowson has "the idea of at least three novels germinating ... & shall start off on one of them immediately M[adame] de V[ole] is finished."