BIB_ID
430463
Accession number
MA 1617.45
Creator
Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937.
Display Date
Brighton, England, 1911 February 5.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.1 x 14.0 cm
Notes
This letter is one of 45 letters from J. M. Barrie to W. E. Henley (MA 1617.11-55) and part of large collection of manuscripts and letters written by and to William Ernest Henley.
Written from Brighton on stationery engraved with his London address "3, Adelphi Terrace House, / Strand, W.C."
Written from Brighton on stationery engraved with his London address "3, Adelphi Terrace House, / Strand, W.C."
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Apologizing for his silence and explaining that he has had the flu, has been in Brighton for the last ten days but is feeling better and hopes to return to London that night; adding "Whoever told you I had given up my flat knew not what he was talking of. I lent it to [illegible] for a week while he was changing houses...How about the pictures you spoke of? What I should like you to do, if fits in with your plans, is to have them valued and after that I would have another [illegible]...I am turning my spare bedroom into my dining room, which gives me more wall space. I hope you are feeling a bit better now, it will soon cease to be the dreariest time of the year; writing about the dullness of Brighton and concluding "I must now go and inhale Maxims menthol inhaler which is warranted not to do me any harm."
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